Workers' tombs
You can see the village while traveling on a donkey, but the main attraction are the tombs. The ticket from the main ticket office only allows you to visit the settlement, temple, the tomb of Sennedzem and Inherchau. To view the tomb of Paszed, must be taken out …
I will name this (Deir al-Medina; Dayr al-Madinah means Monastery of the City in Arabic, City Monastery) it carries a village in the valley between the Ramesseum and Medinet Habu. In ancient times, the settlement was called the Place of Truth or the Place of Order (Set-Size). It was inhabited by workers employed in the construction of royal houses …
Kolosy Memnona
Right on the road, almost a kilometer beyond the village of Al-Gazira, there are two huge Colossi of Memnon among the fields (height 23 m). This is the only remnant of the tomb of Amenhotep III (XVIII dynastia). The colossi was destroyed by time and the ancient tourists. They were forged from quartzite z …
Ramesseum
This building served as the mortuary temple of Ramesses II (XIX dynastia). The ruins lie at the bottom of the necropolis, right on the border of arable fields.
During the floods, the waters of the Nile almost approached the feet of the object, and sometimes they even flooded some, causing the destruction of the monument.…
Roja and Shuroj Tombs
Located on the edge of Dra Abu el-Naga (ok. 1 km by road from the tombs of Al-Chocha), have recently been made available to the public.
The necropolis lies between the village of Al-Tarif and the Asasif necropolis. You can get there by pickup to Al-Gabana.
You have to get off the wheel …
Nakht's tomb (TT52)
Located north of Ramose's tomb. Nacht was probably the scribe of Thotmes IV or Amenhotep III (XVIII dynastia) bearing the title of Astronomer of Amun or Observer of Horus, but dating is based more on the style of decoration than on the facts. …
Tombs of the Dignitaries, also known as the Valley of the Mighty, is another necropolis in Western Thebes. Theban nobles and dignitaries located their tombs ostentatiously in view at the foot of the towering hills, over "temples of millions of years", which the pharaohs erected, and the cultivated Nile Valley. FROM …
Temple of Thotmes III
When Thotmes III took the throne, he ordered at Deir el-Bahari (Dair al Bahri) erect a terraced temple that serves as the Holy Horizon (Dżeser-Achet) for the sacred barge.
During the twentieth dynasty, it disappeared under stones falling from a cliff, the ruins were treated as a quarry, …
The most famous and most visited valley in Western Thebes, apart from the Valley of the Kings, is Deir el-Bahari (Dair al-Bahri), rock valley between Al-Asasif and the Valleys of Kings and Queens, whose name in Arabic means the Northern Monastery. There are places of posthumous worship erected from …
Tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35)
At the end of the valley, behind Horemheb's tomb, there is the tomb of Amenhotep II, one of the deepest in the Valley of the Kings It was built for Amenhotep II (XV w. p.n.e.), but it became famous primarily as a tomb-hiding place, where in 1898 r. Victor …