Tour Guide, Luxor, Egypt
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Valley of the Kings is a place when you visit you will never forget it; it is one of the amazing places to see in Luxor where one third of all monuments of the world are. In Valley of the Kings there are about 65 tombs, all of them are back to 1500 B C till 1000 B C New kingdom; it is where the pharaohs dogged their tombs searching for a secure place to hide them from the tomb raiders.
The first king who had a tomb in this valley was Tutmosis 1st father of Hatshepsut he told Ineni his architect to find a secret place for his tomb to be far away from tomb raiders Ineni searched and found this valley the best place because its far away from the city, in the middle between mountains with a very good quality of limestone and most important is the pyramid shape on top the mountain which is a very special and holy symbol for the ancient Egyptians, it is said that the pyramid symbolize the sun midday with its strong rays covering earth, maybe that's why the tombs in Giza is in the shape of pyramids .
In order to hide the tomb also from workers because you need them to work but no need to know where is the tomb so Ineni built a village for the workers far from the valley and brought them blindfolded moving in circles to the valley to work then gets back to the village same way so they do not know where they are going, he kept the secret and transferred it to next architect and so on, we don't know exactly how did the tomb raiders found the valley but maybe the last architects were lazy to do the same like Ineni and that’s how the secret was revealed.
Main point is that they found it and everything was stolen until now it's only the tomb of Tut ankh Amon which has been found with its treasures inside.
You can enjoy visiting Valley of the Kings at the west side of Luxor as an excursion from your hotel or cruise these tours are mainly offered by your travel agent to enjoy site seeing of Luxor in a fantastic tour to the west side. Also you can visit king Tut's tomb!