Was renamed Valley of the Kings, the area which contains the tombs of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and until the end of the twentieth family carved in the rock. The number of tombs carved in the valley, at least, twenty-six tombs of the kings of that period's Monday session.
It is normally a small valley, is about six kilometers or four miles from the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, and high up the mountain to seventy meters or 230 feet above the surface of the Nile.
Likely to Valley of the Kings site was chosen for several reasons, perhaps the first of them due geological location caller Valley, which was inundated days of flooding, and the mountain that overlooks it has a pyramidal shape or form century, and height of up to three hundred meters or 984 feet almost, and perhaps considered the symbol of the sun god Ra.
And has been the discovery of the tombs of the kings is kings and some of the royal family, priests and senior staff members.
Valley of the Kings is located in the ancient city of Thebes, on the west bank of Luxor, an ancient cemetery of the rulers of the New Kingdom of Egypt.
It is truly a wonderful place surprising and impressive, where you will see the tomb of Tutankhamun, who discovered and is almost its original state in the twenties of the last century, in addition to the tomb of Ramses the Great, as well as other famous pharaohs
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