Valley of the Kings

1. Valley of the Kings Kadille Dave D. Nevado

2. Valley of the Kings • It is the burial site used by the rulers of egyptian of the new kingdom (1550-1070 BC). It is located ont the west side of the nile river, opposite the modern town of Luxor. The valley is concealed with by high cliffs and a long, narrow, and winding entrance way.

3. Exploration of the Valley • The valley of the kings has been an important area of the modern exploration of Egyptological for both last centuries. Before this the area was a site for the tourism in antiquity (specially during the Roman times). These areas illustrate the changes in the study of old Egypt, beginning as it hunts of the antiquity, and the conclusion like scientific excavation of necrópolis whole of Theban. In spite of the well-known exploration and the investigation down, only eleven of the tombs have been registered really totally.

4. Location • The present location of the Valley of the Kings is located here (pointed in an arrow). It is the top view of it.

5. This is a closer look of the Valley of the Kings

6. History • The first king of the new kingdom, Ahmose of the tenth eighth dynasty, constructed to pyramid-like the structure in Abydos, that can or could not have been its original tomb. But all the remaining rules of the period, with the exception of the supposed interregnum of Amarna, had their cut of the tombs on rocks of the bank of the west in Thebes, specifically in the valley of the kings. Of Thutmose I in the tenth eighth dynasty of the new period of the kingdom, they buried all the kings, and to the once in a while high civil employees of that period, in the bed of an isolated dry river, or the reguera drought, that today is called Valley of the kings. The tip known in Arab like EL-Qurn was known at the old times so dehent, the horn, and was sacred to the goddesses Hathor and Meretseger, "she who loves silence." The valley, known like EL-Muluk de Biban, the "threshold or entrance of the kings," or, the Wadyein, meaning "both valleys," are really made up of two separated branches. The branch of the main east, certain call TA aat, or "the great place," is where most of the real tombs they are located, and in greatest, branch of the wind of the west where only some tombs were cut.

7. Tombs in Valley • The valley contains the to-date of 62 tombs, excavated by the Egyptologists and the archaeologists of many countries. All the tombs did not belong to the king and the real family. Some tombs belonged to the privileged noble and were undecorated generally. All the tombs were not discovered intact, and some never were finished. The long-range kings of tenth eighth and diecinueveavo dynasties kept the tombs under near supervision, but underneath the weakest rules of the twentieth dynasty, the tombs were sacked, often by such workers or civil employees supposed responsible for their creation and protection. In order to prevent other thefts, momias and some of their funeral objects were reburied in two secret hiding places, not to be returned to discover until diecinueveavo century of the modern era. The visitors to Egypt have traveled often in the valley for vision the accessible tombs, including Tut, but with the tourism of increase, the urban growth and industrial, the contamination, and the underground water of rise, the tombs have suffered on the decades. Its broken access today, so that a smaller number of tombs is open contemporarily, and is uniformed then, many of the decorations and the walls can be only seen behind the crystal. According to Diodorus and Strabo, and the Greek and Latin painted one, the old tourists during the times of Ptolemaic knew and was visited two writers of old times, some of the tombs in the valley of the kings

9. Exploring the Valley • The valley of the kings has been an important area of the modern exploration of Egyptological for both last centuries. Before this the area was a site for the tourism in antiquity (specially during the Roman times). These areas illustrate the changes in the study of old Egypt, beginning as it hunts of the antiquity, and the conclusion like scientific excavation of necrópolis whole of Theban. In spite of the well-known exploration and the investigation down, only eleven of the tombs have been registered really totally. The Greek writers Strabo and Diodorus Siculus could disclose that the total number of the real tombs of Theban was 47, of who only 17 were believed in that then ones to be undestroyed. Pausanias and others wrote of pipe-like the corridors of the valley - it is to say the tombs. Others also visited clearly the valley at these times, so many of the tombs make the painted one write by these toursits old. Julio Baillet located on 2000 painted Greek and Latins, along with a smaller number in phoenician, chipriota, Lycian, coptic, and other languages. Before diecinueveavo century, the route from Europe to Thebes (and in fact anywhere in Egypt) was difficult, wasteful of the time and expensive, and only most robust of ­ visited the European travellers before the routes of the father Claude Sicard in 1726, he were confused hardly where it was Thebes really. He was known to be in the Nile, but it was confused often with Memphis and several other sites. One of the first travellers to register what it saw in Thebes was Frederic Louis Norden, Danish adventurer and artist. Richard Pococke, who published the first modern map of the valley itself, in 1743 he followed it. In 1799, the expedition of Napoleon drew maps and plans of the known tombs, and for the first observed time the western valley (where it prospers Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage located the tomb of Amenhotep III, WV22). The description of l'Égypte around contains two volumes (outside of a total of 19) in the area of Thebes.