Exploration of the Valley of the Kings standing for King's Valley, (although the maps show 28 entrances, some of which were unexplored). These paintings and maps were later published in 'The Topography of Thebes and General Survey of Egypt', in 1830. At the same time James Burton explored the valley. His works included making KV17 safer from flooding, although, he is better known for entering KV5. Champollion himself visited the valley along with Ippolito Rosellini and Nestor L'Hôte, in the Franco-Tuscan Expedition of 1829. The expedition spent two months studying the open tombs, visiting about 16 of them in total. They copied the inscriptions and identified the
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions pepla of the time (Alberto Lupo as Ajak, and Gerard Herter as his henchman Lothar). The director definitely spiced up the elephant scene by decorating the elephants in imaginative circus raiments and having them pull the villagers toward the fire in a tightly choreographed, theatrical series of steps synchronized to resounding drumbeats. The most frightening scene in the film involves the 4 ravenous, rabid-looking hyenas that attack Ursus in an underground tunnel; the creatures really do look rabid and appear to be "seriously" trying to kill Ed Fury; yet the actor is shown very physically grabbing the ghastly animals by