Valley of the Kings

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The Valley of the Kings ( ; ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ),Reeves and Wilkinson (1996), p.6 is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles under the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.Maspero (1913), p.182 Read more on Wikipedia

type: historic site
date from: {{circa|16th century BC}}

Source: en.wikipedia.org