Giza Pyramid and Nile River Delta are the great choices to settle the tombs of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. However, there is another place located on the western bank of Nile river, on the dry hills of western bank Luxor, is called The Valley of the Kings - where the Pharaoh of New Kingdom era chose to be their resting place.

The Valley of the Kings - where stored lots of mysteries of the world about ancient Egyptian Pharaoh.

The burial place of the Kings

Egyptian people built the giant statues for the Pharaoh and made the treasures underground to bury with the soul and body of Pharaoh that they never tended to let other people see it. Within 500 years (from 1539 - 1075 BC), The Valley of the Kings became the burial place fro royal family: Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Seti I and Ramses II; the Queens; senior officials and priests having the supreme positions of Dynasty 18, 19, 20.
Looking at the middle of the western peak of the Valley of the Kings. The tombs of royal family was decorated by the paintings demonstrating the scenes in history, legend and let us know about the clue of creed and ceremonies of funerals of ancient Egyptian people. Although all the tombs was almost opened and stolen, they still showed its wealth and authorities of the rulers at that time. The tombs of Twosret and Setnakht. The new discoveries in 2006 and 2008 showed that there were totally 63 tombs including many chambers. The sizes of the tombs are different and the largest tombs was found with up to 120 chambers. The tombs are the evidence of the belief of the ancient Egyptian people in preparing for the Pharaoh to get to another world - where people continue leading a new life and Pharaoh had become the Gods. This is the reason why Egyptian people used the advanced mummification techniques and surprised all the world: they wanted to protect the bodies of dead people so that the souls can exist forever in the another world. The colorful painting decorations on the wall. The tombs lied underground which had sophisticated and luxurious decoration, containing all the treasures for the ruler to use in the next world, from the interior, food to the clothes and underwear. The secrets are awaiting... The tomb robbers, treasure thieves and archaeologists have come to the Valleys of the Kings for many centuries but this tomb area always brings lots of surprises to them. Here, the ancient people buried the mysteries of that time that people nowadays have not explored yet. The decorating patterns on the wall in the tomb. Before people nowadays knew and carried on excavating the tombs here, in 57 BC, Diodorus Siculus - a Greek historian had written about the Valley of the Kings in the book Exploration and History. The Greek and Roman people used to visit the tombs and leave the writing on the walls in Greek and Latin languages so that till now, we can still see it. Site map of the system of 63 tombs in the valley. Many people thought that 63 tombs discovered before 1922 were all the things found in the Valley of the Kings until the archaeologist Howard Carter and his partners found out the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There was a system of order number for the tombs discovered in the Valley of the Kings by an Egyptian researcher John Gardiner Wilkinson (1797-1875) carrying on. The names of all the tombs were captioned with positional numbers like: KV is the valley of Pharaoh; QV is the tomb of Nerfertari in the Valley of the Queens; WV is the tombs of Pharaoh Ay in the western valley; TT is the tomb with many branches... The pillars in the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I. The decoration paintings in KV34. In 2005, a group of researchers led by the archaeologist Otto Schaden discovered one more tomb in the valley which was named KV3, 15 meters large and surrounded by the walls. It was considered to be the other burial place of King Tutankhamun. KV3 had no mummy, but there were a coffin, pottery things, linen fabric, flowers and other materials. Some people believe that the existence of the tomb of King Tutankhamun has not appeared yet and the mysteries of Pharaoh has been awaiting to be found out one day. The stone coffin of Pharaoh Merenptah at KV8. The tomb of Pharaoh Ramses III at KV11. The tomb of Pharaoh Ramses IX at KV6. Source: TÙNG HƯƠNG - https://kenh14.vn/kham-pha/bi-an-cho-doi-tai-thung-lung-cac-vi-vua-ai-cap-201112240240540.chn #$gnal$#