The Valley Of The Kings

The Valley Of The Kings was called the Great Noble Necropolis , and for five hundred years it was the burial place of  new Kingdom rulers.62 tombs and 20 unfinished pits have been found there , seven of them in the large West Valley of the Kings, the rest in the East Valley of the Kings

The Valley was chosen as the royal burial place for several reasonsThe quality of its limestone bedrock is generally good, solid, strong, and at least in some areas, relatively free of cracks and fractures. The valley was convenient: a long wadi, along which a funeral procession could move, meanders from the northern end of the Theban Necropolis westward to the Valley of the Kings. footpaths provided easy access over the hills to areas to the south and east. It was easily protected: steep cliffs surround it and guard huts built above them provided 360 degree coverage. The large mountain at the southernend of the Valley of the Kings, al-Qurn or “Horn,” looks from the valley and only from the valley rather like a pyramid, a form associated with solar deities who play so great a role in iconography of royal tombs