Valley Of The Queens
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| Prefectures / cities Monuments / Temples | ||
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| Lower Egypt / Middle Egypt Upper Egypt / Nubia | ||
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| 25 43 '40 "North 32 35 '42 "East / 25.72778, 32595 | ||
Marched deep into the Libyan mountains, near Thebes , southwest of Deir el-Medina , not far from the valley of kings , known in Arabic Biban el-Harim, the Valley of the Queens is the necropolis of the royal wives, girls, sometimes son of kings of nineteenth and twentieth dynasties. Is known today almost a hundred tombs (98 are numbered), including that of Queen Nefertari , the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses II.
Only three or four tombs are now open to the public:
- graves Khemouaset and Amonherkhpeshef two son of Ramses III ,
- Tomb of Nefertari , wife of Ramses II , reopened to the public in 1995 after a restoration,
- Tomb of Tyti , wife? of Ramses X.
The first excavations in the valley of the queens were made by John Gardner Wilkinson , then by Jean-Francois Champollion in 1829, Karl Richard Lepsius in 1844, Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1903 who discovered the tomb of Nefertari.
In 1984, thanks to the donation of Germaine Maria Ford , the Valley was cleared and arranged under the control of scientific Christiane Desroches Noblecourt assisted by Christian Leblanc.
The main tombs
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