Valley of the Kings

burial ground · 1548 BC – 2100 AD

A valley in Egypt where Pharaonic burials took place from the sixteenth to the eleventh centuries B.C. (Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties).

Coordinates

25.73980, 32.60163

Also known as

Biban el Muluk (ara), Bibân el-Molûk (ara), Dal der Koningen (nld), Maqābir al Mulūk (ara), Tal der Könige (deu), Tombs of the Kings, Valle de los Reyes (spa), Valle dei Re (ita), Vallei der Koningen (nld), Vallée des Rois (fra), مقابر الملوك (ara)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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