GPF Facts: The Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings was the burial place for the kings and nobles of Egypt from the sixteenth to the eleventh century BC.

The Valley is on the west bank of the Nile, across from the ancient city of Thebes (now called Luxor).

There are more than sixty tombs and hundreds of chambers. Only twenty kings were actually buried there; the rest are nobles.

The first pharaoh to be buried there was Thutmose I. The last pharaoh to be buried there was Ramses XI.