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The Valley of the Kings |
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If you are an Egyptologist or archeologist or just a leisure traveler planning a trip to Egypt, the along with all the visits to the other attractions of Upper Egypt, do not leave out a travel to the Valley of the Kings from your itinerary, as you are destined to come face to face with some of the greatest mysteries of Egyptology and archaeology at this place. Located on the western bank on the river Nile, opposite the modern city of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings is a large valley housing hundreds of tombs belonging to the royalty of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs and some of the high authorities.
Over several decades the Valley of the Kings has been the subject of immense importance and interest to the researchers and even after all these decades of studies and excavations and research works, the place still remains almost as mysterious as it always had been, evoking a sense of admiration in all the onlookers. The land texture in the Valley of the Kings is mostly dry and is made completely of limestone. Hence, the tombs are built on cutting these tombs, designing them especially according to the orders of the rulers. The tombs belong to the kings of the times of the Eighteenth Dynasty through to the Twentieth Dynasty, whose construction primarily began from the time of a particular ruler’s reign.
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The Egyptians always believed that the spirit of the dead can always be kept alive and can be evoked to life with just one call of the human voice. The tombs in the Valley of the Kings were, therefore built with this thought in mind. The tombs of the kings were always larger than those of the higher authorities and were designed with images and paintings of Gods as Guardian Angels inside the tombs, which were believed to look after the bodies and protect them through days and nights, years and centuries. However, in the construction of the tombs, one pattern has been particularly noticed to have been repeated by the builders comprising of three corridors, an anti-chamber, and a sarcophagus chamber.
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Of the tombs discovered, one of the most famous is that of the tomb of Tutankhamun and the Curse of the Pharaohs attached to it. Ever since its discovery, tourists and researches have been flocking to this place in order to unravel the mystery that it is wrapped in. some of the other famous tombs in the Valley of the Kings are the tombs of Rameses II, Ramesses IV, Ramesses IX, Merneptah, Ramesses VI, Ramesses III, Seti I (the longest tomb discovered in the valley), Tuthmosis III, Amenhotep II, Horemheb, the Amenhetep III, Hatshepsut and more.
You will be required to visit the Valley of the Kings quite a few time with lots of time to spend as each moment spend in these tombs are worth the patience.
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