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Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings, or Wadi el-Muluk (وادي الملوك) in Arabic, is a valley in Egypt where tombs were built for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom, the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. The valley is located at 25°44′N 32°36′E. It stands on the west bank of the Nile, across from Thebes (modern Luxor), under the peak of the pyramid-shaped mountain Al-Qurn. It is separated into the East and West Valleys, with most of the important tombs in the East Valley. The West ...

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Valley of the Kings - Geology

Valley of the Kings - Important burials

Valley of the Kings - East Valley

Valley of the Kings - West Valley

Valley of the Kings - Deir el-Bahri

Valley of the Kings - Exploration of the Valley of the Kings

Valley of the Kings - Grave robbers

Valley of the Kings - Antiquity

Valley of the Kings - Eighteenth Century

Valley of the Kings - Nineteenth Century

Valley of the Kings - Twentieth century

Valley of the Kings - Twenty-first century

Valley of the Kings - Tourism

Valley of the Kings - Selected reading

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia II - Valley of the Kings - Exploration of the Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings has been a major area of modern Egyptological exploration for the last two centuries. Before this the area was a site for tourism in antiquity (especially during Roman times). This areas illustrates the changes in the study of ancient Egypt, starting as antiquity hunting, and ending as scientific excavation of the whole Theban Necropolis. It is interesting to note that despite all of the exploration and investigation noted below, only eleven of the tombs have actually been complete ...

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Ancient Egyptian architecture - Characteristics

Ancient Egyptian architecture - The Giza pyramid complex

Ancient Egyptian architecture - Karnak

Ancient Egyptian architecture - Luxor

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia II - Ancient Egyptian architecture - Characteristics

Due to the scarcity of wood, the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were unbaked mud brick and stone. From the Old Kingdom onward, stone was generally reserved for tombs and temples, while bricks were used even for royal palaces, fortresses, the walls of temple precincts and towns, and for subsidiary buildings in temple complexes. Most ancient Egyptian towns have been lost because they were situated in the cultivated and flooded area of the Nile Valley, although the dry, hot climate of Egypt preserved some mud br ...

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1922 - July to December

1922 - July to December

1922 - Nobel Prizes

1922 - Heads of state in 1922

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Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Valley of the Queens

The Valley of the Queens or Wadi el-Melikat is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharoahs were buried in ancient times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning –‘the place of the Children of the Pharaoh’, because along with the Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties many princes and princesses were also buried with various members of the nobility. The valley is located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile across from Thebes (modern Luxor) . So far over a hundred tombs have been found in the area, although most were hidden ...

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Valley of the Queens - Principal Burials

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Amenhotep III

Nebmaatre Amenhotep III (called Nibmu(`w)areya in the Amarna letters) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty. According to different authors he ruled ca. 1389 BC-1351 BC, or 1391 BC-1353 BC, following on from his father Thutmose IV. With his Chief Queen Tiy, he fathered his second son, Akhenaten, who succeeded him on the throne. Amenhotep appears to have been crowned while still a child, perhaps between the ages of 6 and 12. His lengthy reign was a period of great peace, prosperity, and artistic splendour. He ...

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Amenhotep III - Death

Amenhotep III - Bibliography

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Amenhotep II

Aakheperure Amenhotep II (d. 1401/1400 BC) was the seventh Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1427 BC to 1401 BC and is thought to have enjoyed a reign of 25 Years and 10 Months as a certain Misphragmouthosis according to Josephus' version of Manetho's Epitome. An inscription containing the king's prenomen was written on a wine jar from Amenhotep II's funerary temple at Thebes. It is dated to this king's highest known date--his Year 26--and names the Pharaoh's Vintner, Panehsy. Amenhotep II - Reig ...

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Amenhotep II - Reign

Amenhotep II - Tomb

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture, understand culture history, chronicle cultural evolution, and study human behavi ...

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Archaeology - Usage note

Archaeology - Ontology and definition

Archaeology - Importance and applicability

Archaeology - Goals

Archaeology - Academic sub-disciplines

Archaeology - Cultural resources management

Archaeology - Field methods

Archaeology - Survey

Archaeology - Excavation

Archaeology - Post-excavation analysis

Archaeology - History of archaeology

Archaeology - Archaeological theory

Archaeology - Public archaeology

Archaeology - Pseudoarchaeology

Archaeology - Looting

Archaeology - Public outreach

Archaeology - Descendant peoples

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Yuya

Yuya (sometimes transliterated as Iouiya) was a powerful Egyptian courtier of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (circa 1400 BCE). He served as a key adviser for Pharaoh Amenhotep III (father of Akhenaten) and is the only person in Egyptian history to have been granted the title "Beloved Father of Pharaoh". Yuya married Tjuyu, an Egyptian noblewoman descended from Ahmose Nefertari, and was the father of Tiy, who became Amenhotep's principal wife. Some scholars speculate that they also may have been the parents of Ay, an Egy ...

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Yuya - Yuya and Joseph

Yuya - Resources

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Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Ay

Kheperkheprure Ay (occasionally Aya or Aye) was the penultimate Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty. He held the throne of Egypt for a brief four-year period (probably 1325-1321 BC or 1327-1323 BC, depending which chronology is followed), although he was a close advisor to two (perhaps three) of the pharaohs who ruled before him and was the power behind the throne upon which his immediate predecessor sat. Ay's prenomen, Kheperkheprure, means "Everlasting are the Manifestations of Re." Ay - Amarna ...

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Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist. Chapollion is generally credited as the father of Egyptology. Based on crucial groundwork laid by Thomas Young and William Bankes, Champollion translated parts of the Rosetta stone in 1824, showing that the ancient Egyptian was similar to Coptic, and the writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs. He was born at Figeac, Lot, in France, used to live in Grenoble ...

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Jean-François Champollion - Sources

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Burials in the Valley of the Kings

Sketch map of the major tombs in the Valley The following is a list of who is buried where in the Valley of the Kings, in Thebes (modern Luxor in Egypt) and nearby areas. Egyptologists use the acronym KV (from the words "King's Valley") to designate tombs located in the Valley of the Kings. The system was established by John Gardiner Wilkinson in 1821. Each tomb in the Valley of t ...

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Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Original burials

Burials in the Valley of the Kings - East Valley

Burials in the Valley of the Kings - West Valley

Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Deir el-Bahri

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of pharaonic antiquities in the world. It has 136,000 items on display, with many more hundreds of thousands in its basement storerooms. The museum is an outgrowth of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, established by the Egyptian government in 1835, in an attempt to limit the looting of antiquities sites and artefacts. Its museum opened in 1858 with a collection assembled by Auguste Mariette ...

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Archaeological forgery

Archaeological forgery is a manufacture of supposedly ancient items that are sold to the antiquities market and may even end up in the collections of museums. It is related to art forgery. A string of archeological forgeries have usually followed news of prominent archeological excavations. Historically, famous excavations like those in Crete, Valley of the Kings in Egypt and Pompeii have caused the appearance of a number of forgeries supposedly spirited away from the dig. Those have been usually presented in the open market but some have also ended up in m ...

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Archaeological forgery - Motivations

Archaeological forgery - Detection

Archaeological forgery - Criticisms of antiquities trade

Archaeological forgery - Known archaeological forgers

Archaeological forgery - Known archaeological forgeries

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Akhenaten

Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He is thought to have been born to Amenhotep III and his Chief Queen Tiy in the year 26 of their reign (1379 BC or 1362 BC). Amenhotep IV succeeded his father after Amenhotep III's death at the end of his 38-year reign, possibly after a co-regency between the two of up to 12 years. Suggested dates for Akhenaten's reign (subject to the debates surrounding Egyptian chronology) are from 1353 BC-1336 BC or 1351 BC-1334 BC. Akhenaten's chief wife was Nefertiti, who has been made famous by her exquisitely pa ...

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Akhenaten - Atenist revolution

Akhenaten - Depictions of the Pharaoh and his family

Akhenaten - Problems of the reign

Akhenaten - Plague and pandemic

Akhenaten - Family

Akhenaten - Burial

Akhenaten - Succession

Akhenaten - Akhenaten in the arts

Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Egypt

The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic: مصر, romanized Misr, in Egyptian Arabic Másr), is a republic in North Africa. While most of the country is geographically located in Africa, the Sinai Peninsula east of the Suez Canal is in Asia and Egypt is often associated with the Middle East. Covering an area of about 1,020,000 km², Egypt shares land borders with Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza Strip to the northeast and has coasts on the north and east by the Medi ...

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Egypt - Origin and history of the name

Egypt - Foreign relations

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Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Khepri

In Egyptian mythology, Khepri (also spelt Khepera, Kheper, Chepri, Khepra) is the name of a minor god. The origin of belief in Khepri lies in the observation that Scarab beetles have a habit of pushing large balls of dung around, and so some Egyptians came up with the idea that the sun moved across the sky because it was being pushed by such a beetle. Since Khepri was considered to push the sun, he gradually came to embody aspe ...

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Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - Luxor

Luxor (Arabic: الأقصر ) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt. It has often been called the "world's greatest open air museum", with the ruins of the temple complex at Karnak, Luxor Temple, and the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank of the Nile, including the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Luxor is an excellent base for touring Upper Egypt, and is a popular holiday destination, both in its own right and as a starting or fini ...

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Luxor - Four thousand years of tourism

Luxor - Sights of modern-day Luxor

Luxor - External link

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Valley of the Kings: Encyclopedia - January 3

January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 362 days (363 during leap years) remain in the year after this day. January 3 - Events. 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. 1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. 1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leadin ...