then he/she should visit the Valley of the Kings. Situated on the western bank of the Nile near Luxor in southern Egypt, this important site was the burial place for several pharaohs, queens, and ...

in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C. Their claims to power rested on blood—and nomenclature. The kings they reigned alongside were, equally unoriginally, all named Ptolemy.

The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on the Nile's west bank near Luxor. During Egypt's New Kingdom ... as well as queens, high priests, and other ...

You'll find an array of queens, princesses and princes buried here, and one of Egypt's most elaborate tombs ... few miles south of the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Hatshepsut and the ...