Royal Tombs

entrances

In this necropolis, you can visit 3 royal tombs of your choice for the price of 1 (55 L.E.) and admire coloured reliefs and paintings on their walls and ceilings.

Rameses III

Most of the tombs were cut into the limestone and have 3 corridors, an antechamber and a sunken sarcophagus chamber.

They are all electrically lit which makes everything more impressive.

Website: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com

Rameses IX

The texts in the tombs are from the Book of the Dead, the Book of the Gates and the Book of the Underworld, with the instruction of how a pharaoh can have a safe trip to the underworld and how he can avoid the obstacles on his way.

The picture's showing the notice at the entrance to the tomb of Rameses IX, the last tomb built in the valley.

Website: http://www.crystalinks.com/valleykings.html

King Tut's tomb

More than 25 kings of the 18th to 21st Dynasties were buried in the Valley of the Kings. Among them, King Tutankhamon, whose tomb remained almost intact, only to be discovered by modern archaeologists.

Website: http://www.touregypt.net

Address: Upper Egypt, Thebes

Directions: the west bank of the Nile River