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	Valley of the Kings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 of the Kings also had tombs for the favourite nobles and the wives and children of both the nobles and pharaohs.
		3 Exploration of the Valley of the Kings
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valley_of_the_Kings (1799 words)

	Valley of the Kings - Crystalinks
		The Valley of the Kings, in Upper Egypt, Thebes, the burial place of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, 18th, 19th, and 20th Dynasties.
		Its burial chamber is in the shape of a cartouche (oval-shaped) and its inscriptions are interspersed with stick figures.
		Akhenaten was the son of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiy, a descendent of a Hebrew tribe.
	www.crystalinks.com /valleykings.html (2426 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Luxor - Valley of the Kings
		The Valley of the Kings is the burial ground of virtually all the pharaohs of the New Kingdom (1549-1064).
		Essentially the Valley of the Kings is two valleys - one on the west and the other on the east, with the latter being the most visited.
		The tombs within the Valley are numbered by the succession of their discovery, and prefixed with the letters KV (Kings Valley).
	www.egyptvoyager.com /towns_luxor_valleyofthekings_mainpage.htm (1159 words)

	KV62 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is supported by the fact that only the burial chamber walls were decorated, unlike royal tombs in which nearly all walls were painted with scenes from the Book of the Dead.
		Due to the state of the tomb, and to Carter's meticulous recording technique, the tomb took nearly a decade to empty, the contents all being transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
		Even though Tutankhamun was a minor Pharaoh, for the first time, it was possible to get an idea of the riches which were buried with an Egyptian king, and they were truly astounding.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/k/kv/kv62.html (405 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A section of scholars claim that this was a major river during the third and fourth millennia BC, and propose that it may have been the Sarasvati River of the Rig Veda.
		Most archeologists dispute this view, arguing that the old and dry river died out during the mesolithic age at the latest, and was reduced to a seasonal stream thousands of years before the Vedic period.
		The Indus valley was by main rivers, the Indus River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indus_Valley_Culture (3566 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Indus Valley Civilization is also sometimes referred to as the Harappa or Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference to its first excavated city of Harappa.
		The Indus civilization was predated by the first farming cultures in south Asia, which emerged in the hills of Balochistan, Pakistan, to the west of the Indus Valley.
		In 2600 BC, the Indus Valley was verdant, forested, and teeming with wildlife.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Indus_Valley_Culture (3579 words)

	Egyptian Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom
		Valley of the Kings, across the river from the Egyptian capital at Thebes (Ipet or Opet to the Egyptians, the modern Luxor and Karnak).
		Although the royal tombs of Valley of the Kings are fascinating and numinous objects, it is rare to find any explanation of their structure.
		Since the floor of the burial chamber was excavated out of the shale that underlines the limestone of most of the Valley, it soaked up the water, expanded, and began cracking the walls and columns of the burial chamber.
	www.friesian.com /tombs.htm (6555 words)

	Historical Development of the Valley of the Kings in the New Kingdom - Theban Mapping Project
		The exact nature of this continuation is uncertain because the tombs of the first two kings of this dynasty have not been identified, although their mummified remains and some of their burial equipment have been found in later caches.
		Hatshepsut certainly intended KV 20 to be a burial place both for herself and her father, as the discovery of her sarcophagus in KV 20 together with another recarved for him attests [13702].
		The last king of the dynasty, Horemheb, returned to the East Valley for his tomb (KV 57), which was cut just north of the tomb of Amenhetep II [11791, 13691].
	www.thebanmappingproject.com /articles/article_2.3.html (962 words)

	Egypt: Recent Excavations in the Valley of the Kings by the Amarna Royal Tombs Project
		Few visitors to the King’s Valley realise that the modern landscape is very different from that which would have been seen even 150 years ago and is far from being natural.
		Therefore, although visitors to the King’s Valley over the next few years may experience minor inconveniences, as a result of this work, they can look forward having the opportunity to see any new discoveries by this team, quite literally, as and when they are made.
		Valley of the Kings — John Romer, Michael O’Mara, London, 1981 (ISBN unavailable at present): A good, popular account of the excavation of the tombs in the Valley, with copious quantities of early excavation photographs.
	www.touregypt.net /magazine/mag08012000/magf3.htm (2097 words)

	Egypt: KV55 in the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank at Luxor
		The sloping passage and burial chamber resemble the design elements of Tutankhamun's tomb, which itself was originally meant to be a private tomb, as well as the tomb of Yuya and Tuya, which indeed is a private tomb.
		Within the burial chamber itself was found a somewhat decayed wooden coffin, obviously of royal origins with the crook and flail visible, as well as an uninscribed bronze uraeus.
		Approximately in three corners of the burial chamber were fragments from four mud "magical bricks" (with one under the coffin) along with a variety of broken funerary equipment consisting of fragments of wooden furniture, hematite and blue glazed vases, boxes and ritual implements.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/kv55.htm (2953 words)

	Rock Valley \| Rock Pillar \| Huge Rock \| Fields Of Rock \| Limestone Rock \| Rock Mountain
		The Valley Of The Kings, called by the Arabs Biban el Muluk (that is "the gates of the kings") because of the entrances of several tombs opening in the kings valley rocky walls, is a deep erosion dug out in the limestones of the Libyan range and directed mainly north west.
		Today the access to the valley of the kings, several kilometers long, is over a wide asphalted road that follows the ancient track used in the pharaonic era and referred to as the "road where Re sets".
		The Valley of The Kings is dominated by the Theban Peak, called by the natives el Qurna "the Horn" from its curious pyramid like shape, identified in ancient times with the snake goddess Mertseger "She Who Loves Silence".
	www.egyptattraction.com /valley-of-the-kings-egypt.html (843 words)

	More on Mummies
		The kings of the following period (Dynasties 21 and 22, 1069-715 BC) built their tombs within the precincts of the temple of Amen at Tanis, their capital in the north.
		To safeguard the royal mummies, the new kings (who were buried at Tanis) ordered the priests to remove the royal mummies from their individual tombs and hide them where they could be better protected.
		On April 5, 1923, six weeks after opening the burial chamber of Tutankhamen's tomb, Lord Carnarvon, who had financed the excavations, died from complications resulting from a mosquito bite, and for years afterward, the death of anyone connected with the discovery of the tomb was attributed to supernatural causes.
	www.clevelandart.org /kids/egypt/rosefaq.html (1278 words)

	CULTUREFOCUS: Ancient Egypt. Valley of the Kings, pictures and history.
		The pharaohs of New Kingdom Egypt were buried in the Valley of the Kings with precious objects needed to maintain their status in the divine afterlife.
		The pharaoh believed that after his burial to the west of Thebes, where the sun was seen to set, he would unite with the sun god and then be reborn as one with Re in the eastern sky at dawn.
		Scene from the Amduat in the tomb of Tuthmosis III, one of the earliest in the Valley of the Kings.
	culturefocus.com /egypt_valley-of-kings.htm (1230 words)

	After the pyramids: The Valley of the Kings and beyond
		But despite the kings’ quest for eternity, the Valley of the Kings was not destined to endure as a burial place.
		As the kingdom disintegrated, it became impossible to police, and the kings abandoned it at the end of the New Kingdom.
		Burial in courtyards of temples continued until the Ptolemaic Period.
	home.earthlink.net /~nfrtry/pages/articles/dodson.html (583 words)

	Civilization.ca - Egyptian civilization - Architecture - Tombs
		The burial chambers were cut into the rock, lined with sun-baked bricks and faced with wooden boards that have long since disappeared.
		These people may have been servants of the kings who were sacrificed to serve them in their afterlife.
		To prevent robbery, the kings, queens and nobles of the New Kingdom built their tombs in a remote valley west of the Theban capital known as the Valley of the Kings.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/egypt/egca02e.html (167 words)

	Further Observations Concerning the Valley of the Kings by Donald P. Ryan.
		The "Valley of the Kings Preservation Project" updated a map of the Valley to incorporate recently exposed, added or eliminated physical features and conducted a survey to produce natural hazards assess-ments for each individual tomb and for the Valley as a whole.
		One thing, though, remains consistent: the tombs of the Valley of the Kings were never intended to be visited by millions of curious tourists nor were they designed to com-pletely sustain the ravages of intrusive natural forces.
		Evidence for their existence in the Valley of the Kings is suggested by the material of Queen Tiye in the controversial KV 55, the mummy of the "Elder Lady" cited above in Note 3, and in foundation deposits belonging to Merytre associated with KV 42.
	www.plu.edu /~ryandp/Observ2.html (2599 words)

	Valley of the Kings Plan
		John Gardiner Wilkinson (an English Egyptologist in the nineteenth century), began mapping the Valley of the Kings in 1827.
		This valley is where many of the royal burials from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties took place.
		The Valley is dominated by a pyramid-shaped peak, Mount El-Qurn (The Horn).
	www.charlesmiller.co.uk /fla/templans/vok.htm (299 words)

	VALLEY OF THE KINGS FOUNDATION
		ARTP first encountered evidence of a second anomaly in the central area of the Valley of the Kings in the autumn of 2000, located at a point close to the southeast corner of the modern flood-prevention wall around the Tutankhamun-tomb entrance and a short distance to the north of KV63 (see Fig.
		The tomb has rightly been described as the most important discovery in the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun; and, while it lacks the glamour of that earlier find, when what the new tomb has to tell us is eventually released in full it will be matter of immense interest to scholars and public alike.
		My particular quarry was the burial place of Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s wife and coregent (who, I concluded, had been buried in the Valley as and when she died), but also the whereabouts of Akhenaten’s secondary consort Kiya, his second daughter Meketaten and other lesser members of the royal family who had originally been interred at El-Amarna.
	www.valleyofthekings.org /vofk/home.htm (4899 words)

	Egyptian Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He was considered to be king of all the gods and the the creator of all things.
		This is a king's first cartouche name, which he adopted on his accession; also called the "throne name." It consists of a statement about the god Ra.
		The burials in the Valley of the Kings are perhaps the best known Rock-cut tombs.
	members.aol.com /egyptart/glossary.html (5374 words)

	Some observations concerning uninscribed tombs in the Valley of the Kings. By Donald P. Ryan
		Uninscribed Tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
		ALTHOUGH the Valley of the Kings is internationally celebrated for its beautifully decorated and inscribed tombs, a closer examination of the numbered tombs in the Wadi Biban el-Moluk demonstrates that approximately half of these tombs are uninscribed (see Table 1).
		Though formally numbered in the Valley of the Kings tomb series, KV 54 is not a tomb but a shallow rock cut excavation containing a cache of materials related to the burial of Tutankhamun.
	www.plu.edu /~ryandp/Observ1.html (2624 words)

	CULTUREFOCUS: Ancient Egypt. Valley of the Kings, pictures and history.
		On the opposite west bank was a magnificent burial ground for the pharaohs - the Valley of the Kings.
		The pharaoh believed that after his burial to the west of Thebes, where the sun was seen to set, he would unite with the sun god and then be reborn as one with Re in the eastern sky at dawn.
		Scene from the Amduat (meaning 'that which is in the underworld') in the tomb of Tuthmosis III, one of the earliest in the Valley of the Kings.
	www.culturefocus.com /egypt_valley-of-kings.htm (1163 words)

	KV5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		KV5 is the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II, and the recent discovery of its great extent has been called the most amazing discovery in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
		Standing near the entrance to the Valley, over the centuries it had suffered the fate of other low-lying tombs, which was to be filled with rubble washed down in the flash floods that accompany thunderstorms over the valley.
		The tomb was examined several times once exploration of the Valley in relatively modern times started, first in 1825 (by James Burton), and later in 1902 (by Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/KV5.htm (428 words)

	Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A djed column is often painted on the bottom of coffins, where the backbone of the deceased would lay, this identified the person with the king of the underworld, Osiris.
		It is a scene usually found decorating the mortuary temples of the king.
		A rearing cobra was worn on the king's forehead or crown.
	www.wanderingrealms.com /temple/texts/glossary.htm (4294 words)

	Spring 1997 - Down and Dirty in the Valley of the Kings
		Given its size and location directly across from the tomb of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings, Weeks believed that the unusual tomb, named KV5, might house Ramesses' 52 sons.
		In 1979, Weeks began working on an archaeological map of the Valley of the Kings, recognizing that such information would be critical in deciding how to deal with regularly increasing tourism while protecting the tombs.
		One of the "lost" tombs was in an area soon to be excavated to widen the bus entrance to the Valley of the Kings.
	artsci.washington.edu /newsletter/Picks/weeks.htm (1094 words)

	Makara's Definitions from I to Z
		translated as "all" it was a symbol of obeisance or prostration preformed in the precnese of a king or deity.
		It also designated one of the chambers in the valley temples of the royal mortuary complexes were the corpses of the kigns were embalmbed.
		Whenever the king was in residence the water from teh temple's sacred lake was used to wash him each morning in a spirtual baptism.
	www.angelfire.com /me3/egyptgoddess/Def2.html (7465 words)

	Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings?
		And it was driven by a physical threat that the rubble fill of the Valley, and along with it most of the archaeology, might be removed wholesale to combat the seriously damaging effects of flash-flooding on the open tombs.
		The valley of the Kings near the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62).
		The likelihood is that the lady herself was buried in the Valley of the Kings, too.
	www.archaeology.org /online/interviews/reeves.html (1733 words)

	ipedia.com: Burials in the Valley of the Kings Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The following is a list of who is buried where in the Valley of the Kings and nearby areas.
		Far from being pious, they decided to reopen the tombs of their god-kings to reuse the vast treasures that were buried with them, where they were of no use.
		C. Reeves, Valley of the Kings: The Decline of a Royal Necropolis (Keegan Paul, 1990)
	www.ipedia.com /burials_in_the_valley_of_the_kings.html (385 words)

	New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV63)
		New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV63)
		The new tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by a project focused on preserving and recording a tomb originally made for King Amenmesse (KV 10), but actually used for the burials of two queens, Takhet and Baketwerel.
		The burial chamber holds seven wooden anthropoid ("human-shaped") coffins with painted faces, about twenty pottery jars, and other materials that will come to light as the clearing of the tomb progresses.
	academic.memphis.edu /egypt/kv63.html (567 words)

	Sarcophagus
		Others were made for burial, or were placed in crypts.
		In Ancient Egypt, a sarcophagus was usually the external layer of protection for a royal Egyptian mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within.
		The word sarcophagus is often used in context of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to describe a concrete tomb structure that has been erected to isolate the remains of the collapsed atomic reactor from the environment.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Sarcophagus (159 words)

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