Robert Taylor, with a vocabulary of one word in Arabic ("emshee". "walk" or "get moving") conducts a laughable search for lost tombs. After considerable "adventure" his native guide leads him on a long desert trek to the famous rock-cut temple of Abu Simbel and says, "there it is". He could have just as easily said "go up river until you see some big statues", since this temple has been known to the West since about 1815. One good feature is the use of the French excavations at the Step Pyramid at Saqqara as a background to Taylor's archaeological "work". Shots in Cario, supposedly around the beginning of the 20th century, show a remarkable amount of modern electric and telephone wire. Not for anyone interested in historical accuracy, either ancient or modern.
Review of Valley of the Kings
