Valley of the Kings & Luxor, Egypt
July 11th 2008 Twelfth & Thirteenth Stop: Valley of the Kings & Luxor:
Next along the Nile river was the fabled Valley of the Kings. Before entering the valley, we stopped at the Colossi of Memnon and Hatshepsut's memorial temple. The actual Valley of the Kings is a region where 500 years worth of Pharaohs and nobility from the "New Kingdom" were buried (16th - 11th century BC). The mummies of some of the mo
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