EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
The house of Tewfik Bey Andraos. Photograph © Sylvie Weens
major contribution to the study of Egyptology, as well as a fitting homage to a man whose name is inexorably linked to the history of Luxor. Today, only the house of Yassa’s youngest brother, Tewfik Bey Andraos, remains. The house was sadly in the news in January 2013, when the last two surviving daughters of Tewfik were savagely killed. Behind the closed shutters of the silent and empty house, the myth of the Andraos family’s buried treasure lives on. Legends die hard in this part of Egypt.
Tewfik Bey Andraos. Photograph © Collection Yassa Andraos family q Sylvie Weens was Assistant Secretary of the Egypt Exploration Society from 1989 to 1997. She now lives in Cairo and is currently researching the historical and urban development of Luxor in the nineteenth century. She wishes to thank Sebastien Biston-Moulin and Christophe Thiers of the CFEETK, the EA Editorial Board and Marcel Marée for their assistance, and Aida Andraos, Gracy Andraos and Fayez Andraos for allowing her to use photographs from their family archives. She is also grateful to Jane Akshar for permission to include the photograph on p.26.
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