Dusty Globe » Valley of the Queens http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:04:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Valley of the Kings http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/03/17/valley-of-the-kings/ http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/03/17/valley-of-the-kings/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:20:14 +0000 katya http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/?p=1240 I spent most of yesterday visiting the west side of Luxor, which includes the famous Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings is where many of the pharaohs, such as Tutankhamun, from the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt were buried.

Valley of the Kings (I wasn’t allowed to take photos inside the tombs)

The west side of Luxor also includes the Valley of the Queens, several temples, and the village where the workers who built the tombs lived.…

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