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  • Valley of the Kings

    Valley of the Kings, also the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, as part of Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis.
    World Heritage Site
    Valley of the Kings
    by Wouter Hagens, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Valley of the Kings

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1979

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    Tombs and Necropolises

    Location

    Egypt

    New Valley Governorate

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    Second Millennium BC

    Ancient Egyptians

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    Ancient Egyptian Monuments

     

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