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Photographs of the Valley of the Kings from tomb interiors as well as exterior views of the valley including the tombs of Ramses 1V, KV 43 and 19.
Valley Kings Train EG02035jhp Egypt Egyptian Luxor Valley Kings Tombs transport trains visitors tourists considered a more environmentally acceptable way of transporting tourists from the coaches into one of the most visited places in the world probably and certainly in Egypt is this desolate desert valley beneath the Theban mountain on the West Bank of the River Nile at Luxor famous for some of the most important Royal burials of this ancient civilisation. It is possible to climb over the hills above the Valley, pass above the huge amphitheatre of Deir el-Bahri above Hatshepsut’s spectacular Mortuary Temple and come down into Deir el-Medina, the workers village using the same paths as they must have done over 3000 years ago. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, West, Bank, Thebes, Theban, hill, mountain, Valley, Kings, pharaoh, tombs, landscape, ancient, Egyptian, archaeology, Egyptology, shelters, transport, trains, entrances, desert, rocky, sand, heat, exposed, isolated, desolate, crowds, visitors, tourists, busy
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Valley of Kings Luxor
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Valley Kings Train EG02035jhp
Upload Date: 2002-10-27 07:44:33
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Egypt Egyptian Luxor Valley Kings Tombs transport trains visitors tourists

considered a more environmentally acceptable way of transporting tourists from the coaches into one of the most visited places in the world probably and certainly in Egypt is this desolate desert valley beneath the Theban mountain on the West Bank of the River Nile at Luxor famous for some of the most important Royal burials of this ancient civilisation. It is possible to climb over the hills above the Valley, pass above the huge amphitheatre of Deir el-Bahri above Hatshepsut’s spectacular Mortuary Temple and come down into Deir el-Medina, the workers village using the same paths as they must have done over 3000 years ago.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, West, Bank, Thebes, Theban, hill, mountain, Valley, Kings, pharaoh, tombs, landscape, ancient, Egyptian, archaeology, Egyptology, shelters, transport, trains, entrances, desert, rocky, sand, heat, exposed, isolated, desolate, crowds, visitors, tourists, busy