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The Valley of the Kings, [a] also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, [b] [2] 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. [3] [4]
Valley of the Kings, subtitled A Graphics Adventure, is a video game written by Thomas M. Krischan for Atari 8-bit computers and published by Dynacomp in 1982. [ 2 ] Gameplay
[citation needed] It has an almost pyramidal shape when viewed from the entrance to the Valley of the Kings and it is for this reason that some Egyptologists believe the valley was chosen as the location of a royal necropolis. The area was associated with the goddess Hathor as well as the cobra goddess Meretseger. Near the highest point is a ...
Tomb KV49, located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt is a typical Eighteenth Dynasty corridor tomb. It was the first of a series of tombs discovered in 1906 by Edward R. Ayrton in the course of his excavations on behalf of Theodore M. Davis. The tomb was abandoned before it was completed, and the work was halted as the stairwell in the ...
The Project's original goal was to create an archaeological map of the Valley of the Kings, and that was published as the Atlas of the Valley of the Kings in 2000. [1] Since 2001, the Project has also developed a management plan for the Valley of the Kings, which is funded by the World Monuments Fund. [2]
Tomb KV5 is a subterranean, rock-cut tomb in the Valley of the Kings. It belonged to the sons of Ramesses II. Though KV5 was partially excavated as early as 1825, its true extent was discovered in 1995 by Kent R. Weeks and his exploration team. The tomb is now known to be the largest in the Valley of the Kings.
KV38 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.It was used for the reburial of Pharaoh Thutmose I of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and was where his body was removed to (from KV20) by Thutmose III before ultimately being relocated to the Royal Cache, located in Deir el-Bahri, during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.
Tomb KV29 is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in the Theban Necropolis of Egypt. It is located near the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty tombs of Tiaa , Thutmose II or Merytre-Hatshepsut , and Thutmose III . The tomb was known since the 1830s and given the number KV29 in 1899 but no records of an earlier excavation exist.