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  • Valley of the Queens

  • Valley of the Queens

    Valley of the Queens is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, The Place of Beauty. 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 Queens
    by Cormac Lawler (Cormaggio), GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Valley of the Queens

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1979

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    Tombs and Necropolises

    Location

    Egypt

    New Valley

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    Second Millennium BC

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians

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