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Welcome to the deeply legendary Valley of the Kings, the incredibly secretive, highly protected royal necropolis where the greatest pharaohs of the Egyptian New Kingdom sought eternal, undisturbed rest. Located deep within the…

Standing directly at the threshold of the tomb, the very first thing that instantly captures our attention is not the beautifully painted ancient Egyptian artwork, but rather the highly prominent, deeply carved historical…

As we carefully proceed down the moderately sloping floor of the first corridor, we are instantly immersed in a beautifully painted, highly detailed magical environment. The walls on both sides are completely covered in…

Continuing our descent slightly deeper into the rocky hillside, we slowly enter the second sloping corridor. Here, the magical theological program dramatically shifts from the Book of Gates to another highly important, deeply…

We now step into a small, roughly squared room that officially serves as the antechamber directly preceding the main burial hall. In many of the older, grander royal tombs within the valley, this specific location would typically…

Passing carefully through the final, narrow doorway, we finally enter the main burial chamber, the ultimate, highly secretive destination of this massive subterranean complex. This heavily vaulted room was painstakingly designed…

In the absolute, dead center of the burial chamber lies a massive, roughly sunken rectangular pit originally cut directly into the bedrock to hold the pharaoh's massive stone sarcophagus. What heavily remains today is the…

As we carefully retrace our steps back up the slightly sloping, beautifully painted corridors, moving away from the empty sarcophagus and back toward the blinding desert light, take a quiet moment to reflect on the immense,…