One Landscape, Many Tenants: Uncovering Multiple Claims, Visions and Meanings on the Theban Necropolis Gemma Tully, Saffron Walden Museum, Museum Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1JL, UK; 41 Hemingford Road, Cambridge CB1 3BY, UK E-mail: gemmatully@hotmail.com Monica Hanna, Cairo, Egypt E-mail: monica_h@aucegypt.edu ABSTRACT ________________________________________________________________ The archaeology of the Theban Necropolis is well documented. Under represented in the literature are the studies which deal with the meaning of the site to the multitude of contemporary users who interact with the heritage landscape and with each other in the designated archaeological zone. This article will investigate how different stakeholders engage with the heritage ‘space’ and invest it with multiple meanings. By exploring the areas of agreement, difference and contradiction, we hope to show how contemporary experiences and future visions for the management of global heritage at the Theban Necropolis can be analogous and simultaneously worlds apart. ________________________________________________________________ Re ´sume ´: L’arche ´ologie de la ne ´ cropole the ´baine est bien documente ´e. Toutefois, certains aspects sont sous-repre ´sente ´s dans la litte ´rature. C’est le cas des e ´tudes traitant de la signification du site pour la multitude de ses usagers contemporains, qui interagissent entre eux et avec le paysage patrimonial dans la zone arche ´ ologique de ´signe ´e. Cet article e ´tudie comment les diffe ´rentes parties prenantes investissent « l’espace » patrimonial et lui attribuent de multiples significations. En explorant les points de consensus, de de ´saccord et de contradiction, nous espe ´rons montrer comment les expe ´riences contemporaines et les visions d’avenir concernant la gestion du patrimoine mondial de la ne ´cropole the ´baine peuvent e ˆtre simultane ´ment analogues et diame ´ tralement oppose ´es. ________________________________________________________________ Resumen: La arqueologı ´a de la Necro ´ polis tebana esta ´ bien documentada. En el material publicado, esta ´n infra-representados los estudios que tratan RESEARCH ARCHAEOLOGIES © 2013 World Archaeological Congress Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress (© 2013) DOI 10.1007/s11759-013-9244-1