Valley of the Kings to the public. Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings ( ; ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ), 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). The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis. The wadi consists of two valleys, East
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions pepla of the time (Alberto Lupo as Ajak, and Gerard Herter as his henchman Lothar). The director definitely spiced up the elephant scene by decorating the elephants in imaginative circus raiments and having them pull the villagers toward the fire in a tightly choreographed, theatrical series of steps synchronized to resounding drumbeats. The most frightening scene in the film involves the 4 ravenous, rabid-looking hyenas that attack Ursus in an underground tunnel; the creatures really do look rabid and appear to be "seriously" trying to kill Ed Fury; yet the actor is shown very physically grabbing the ghastly animals by