 The earliest positively dated graffiti dates to 278 B.C.In 1799, members of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt (especially Vivant Denon) drew maps and plans of the known tombs, and for the first time noted the Western Valley (where Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage located the tomb of Amenhotep III, WV22).The "Description de l'Égypte" contains two volumes (out of a total of 24) on the area around Thebes.