Valley of the Kings in Egypt

Also known as "Valley of Biban Kings", it is a valley in Egypt that was used for 500 years during the period between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries BC for the construction of tombs for the pharaohs and nobles of the modern state extending during the ages of the eighteenth to the twentieth dynasty in ancient Egypt. The west bank of the Nile in front of Thebes (currently Luxor) in the heart of the ancient funerary city of Thebes. The Valley of the Kings is divided into two valleys; The eastern valley (where most of the royal tombs are located) and the western valley

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The ancient Egyptian man began inhabiting the Valley of the Kings since the Middle Stone Age. The top of the century is topped by all the good hills, which the ancient Egyptians knew as Ta Dehnt (meaning the summit in hieroglyphics), which appears pyramidal when viewed from the entrance to the valley in an appearance similar to the pyramids of the ancient state that were used as tombs thousands of years before the establishment of the first royal cemetery in the valley, and some Egyptologists have pointed out that the pyramidal shape of the summit is one of the reasons for choosing this spot for the construction of the tombs of the kings, just as the pyramids were used to bury kings in the era of the Old Kingdom. ) to protect the entire funeral city

It was believed for a long time that pyramid-shaped buildings, especially the Giza pyramids, are the traditional model for royal tombs in ancient Egypt throughout its various eras, but most royal tombs were completely carved from rock. They were built by cutting from the ground level, but in Egypt there are many royal tombs completely carved from the rock (similar to the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings) dating back to the era of the Old Kingdom

Valley of the Kings and World Cinema

The Valley of the Kings has always been a source of inspiration for international film producers because of its relics and secrets about ancient Egypt that attract the attention of foreign viewers seeking to learn more about the Pharaonic civilization and see archaeological sites that he could not visit before, and American cinema has produced two adventure films with the same name The Valley, the first of which was the movie “The Valley of Kings” produced in 1954, while the other was produced ten years after this date, and the Valley of the Kings was the scene of the events of the American movie “The Awakening” produced. In 1980, as well as many short TV series, whether American or French

This is in addition to many documentaries that talked about the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, including those who talked only about the tomb of the young king Tutankhamun, where the first documentaries were filmed and produced in 1938, an American film entitled “Ancient Egypt” and spoke About the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and its duration was only nine minutes, then continued filming documentaries in the Valley of the Kings by international companies, the last of which was in 2004 under the title Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt, meaning "The Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt"

Egyptian and Arab filmmakers were not far from that area, which was the scene of the events of the Egyptian film Gram in Karnak, which was produced in 1965 and its cameras moved between the Valley of the Kings, Deir el-Bahari and Abu Simbel, and an Egyptian TV series of the same name (Valley of the Kings) is currently being filmed with a budget Huge more than eighty million Egyptian pounds