Valley o the Keengs
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The Valley o the Keengs (Arabic: وادي الملوك Wādī al Mulūk), less eften cried the Valley o the Gates o the Keengs (Arabic: وادي ابواب الملوك Wādī Abwāb al Mulūk),[1] is a valley in Egyp whaur, for a period o nearly 500 years frae the 16t tae 11th century BC, tombs wur constructit for the Pharaohs an pouerful nobles o the New Kinrick (the Aichteent tae the Twentiet Dynasties o Auncient Egyp).[2][3] The valley stands on the wast bank o the Nile, opposite Thebes (modren Luxor), within the heart o the Theban Necropolis.[4] The wadi consists o twa valleys, East Valley (whaur the majority o the ryal tombs are situatit) an Wast Valley.
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- ↑ Reeves and Wilkinson (1996), p.6
- ↑ Maspero (1913), p.182
- ↑ "Theban Mapping Project". Theban Mapping Project. Retrieved 2006-12-04.
- ↑ Siliotti (1997), p.13