The Valley of the Queens
About a kilometre and a half from the Valley of the Kings is the Valley of the Queens which today is called «Biban el-Harim». In the region, eighty tombs have been discovered there but they are badly damaged, some showing traces of fire, others having been used as stables.
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The Valley of the Queens |
The tombs mostly date from the period 1300 to 1100 B.C., that is from the XlXth and XXth dynasties. A little more open than the Valley of the Kings, access is via a pass where stelae commemorating some of the achievement of Ramses III can be seen. Prayers addressed to Osiris and Anubis have been carved on some of the rocks.
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