Luxor, Egypt

Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles under the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. It is a wadi sitting...

City

Luxor

Country

Egypt

More places in Luxor

• Karnak
• Luxor Temple
• Thebes, Egypt
• Tomb of Tutankhamun
• Colossi of Memnon
• Ramesseum

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