Valley of the Kings
- The tombs of the royal known as the Valley of the Kings, is located on the Western Bank of the Nile River to the West of Thebes
- It held several names such as the great, the Necropolis of Millions of years of Pharaoh
- 62 tombs & 20 unfinished pits were discovered in the site
- The Valley of the Kings was chosen as a royal necropolis for the following reasons:
1. The quality of its limestone being solid, strong and - in most areas – free of crocks.
2. It was suitable in the form of a wadi through which a long Funerary. Procession could walk.
3. It can be easily reached from South & East.
As for the most commonly known derived from the geography of the area being called "Wadi El Melouk". The local people referred to it by their understanding of the view of the site being known as "Sheikh Abdul Qurna"
In the early periods of the Arab conquest, they knew that these doors cut in the cliffs hides behind them the tombs and the bodies of the royal so they called them "Biban El Melouk"
The numbering of these tombs followed a common system at the beginning established by Wilkenson in 1827 that numbered the 21 tombs discovered by his time according to the location from the entrance of the Valley south words and from West to East. Since then, tombs have been added to the list in the order of their discovery; K.v. 62, the tomb of Tutankhamon is the most recent.
The Types of the tombs
The tombs of Wadi El Melouk are classified according to their dates of building, with a wider classification according to Dynasties and Kingdoms. The first king who was buried, there was Thutmose I and the last King was Ramses XI which means that the area ended its real significance by the end of the 20th Dynasty, in other words, the new Empire
|
Main Activities
