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Sheikh Abd El Qurna
25 43 '30 "N 32 36' 10" E / 25725, 32.6028
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Sheikh Abd el-Qurna is a village on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor , Egypt.
It contains the mortuary temples of Seti I ( nineteenth dynasty ), and Sennefer , Mayor of Thebes.
Two brothers from the village, and Mohamed Ahmed Abd el-Rassul, in 1871 , looking for a stray goat, discovered an opening carved into the rock. By being slippery, Ahmed came face to a real gold mine for his family for ten years, coulrent antiquities they were taking a measured way.
Tombs
- TT29 : Amenemopet
- TT31 : Khonsu
- TT51 : Userhat
- TT52 : Nakht
- TT55 : Ramos
- TT57 : Khaemhat
- TT60 : Antefoqer
- TT61 : Ouseramon said oUser (also TT131)
- TT67 : Hapouseneb
- TT69 : Menna
- TT71 : Senenmut
- TT89 : Amenmose
- TT96 : Sennefer
- TT100 : Rekhmire
- TT106 : Paser
- TT120 : anen
- TT131 : Ouseramon said oUser (also TT61)
- TT280 : Meketre
- TT343 : Benia
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