what is the valley of the kings egypt
Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings (Arabic: وادي الملوك‎ Wādī al Mulūk, Coptic: ϫⲏⲙⲉ[1]), the Valley of the Gates of the Kings (Arabic: وادي ابواب الملوك‎ Wādī Abwāb al Mulūk),[2] is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, rock cut tombs were excavated for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt).[3][4]
Valley of the Kings In 1799, members of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt (especially Dominique Vivant) drew maps and plans of the known tombs, and for the first time noted the Western Valley (where Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage located the tomb of Amenhotep III, WV22).[42] The Description de l'Égypte contains two volumes (out of a total of 24) on the area around Thebes.[43]
Euphrates The Euphrates (/
Nile Below the Aswan High Dam, at the northern limit of Lake Nasser, the Nile resumes its historic course.