# UNESCO lists Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis, including the Valley of the Kings

Date: 1979

## The fact

In 1979 UNESCO inscribed Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis. KV62 sits inside that landscape. The listing is a completed conservation-policy act. The king did not file it.

## Context

Listing creates duties, tourist frames, and some money for care. It does not undo 1922 exclusives.

[Tutankhamun](/people/tutankhamun) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archive, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: UNESCO — Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/87/; UNESCO World Heritage Centre).

## Significance

A 1979 World Heritage file is a conservation-access path, not a rebate to tomb workers.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Tutankhamun: https://factrail.ai/people/tutankhamun

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://egymonuments.gov.eg/
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/87/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tut-unesco-thebes-1979