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False Tomb of Tutankhamun
Beside the Carter House is an exact replica of the tomb of Tutankhamun from the valley of the Kings. This project was created to ease the damaging effects of thousands of tourists blundering throug…
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The Carter House
The house built by Howard Carter on Ulwit al-Dibban (Hill of the Flies) is a really pleasant space. It is beautifully proportioned and has that “just right” feel you get from excellent …
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November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Howard Carter
To the north-east of the al-Qurna you will come to the site where Howard Carter built his house. Carter is famous as the excavator who uncovered the Tomb of Tutankamun. I will follow this with a po…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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TT52 – Tomb of Nakht
We now move on to the tomb of Nakht, which reminded me a lot of the tomb of Ti all the way back in the Old Kingdom and the Saqqara complex. Nakht is just up the hill from Ramose. He was a scribe an…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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TT55 – Tomb of Ramose
We have now move out of Deir el-Medina to Sheikh abd al-Qurna which is just over the hill from the homes of the artisans. Here you can find a number of the tombs of high officials from the courts o…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Temple of Hathor
At the end of the valley of the workers houses in Deir el-Medina you can find the old coptic monastery of Saint Isidorus the Martyr of Chios. Being adopted by the Christians was a good way for paga…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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TTY – Monochrome Style Tomb
The final tomb from Deir el-Medina I am calling TTY and like TTX I can’t identify the correct tomb number or the name of the occupant. It is decorated in what is known as the Monochrome Style…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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TTX – Perhaps Pashedu
I have to admit that my recording skills fell apart for this and the next posting. In future I need to be better at documenting my photostream by having a clearly labelled photo of the place I ente…
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November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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TT1 – Tomb of Sennedjem
If you have not guessed yet the tombs in the Valley of the Kings are designated KV# (Kings Valley) and those in the Valley of the Queens are QV#. Today we have a TT designation which stands for The…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Tombs of the Nobles and the Workers
Lying between the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Kings you will find the village of the tomb builders “Deir el-Medina”. Nearby in Old Qurna are found the tombs of court offi…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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QV44 – Tomb of Khaemwaset
Khaemwaset was another son of Ramesses III who got a tomb to himself in the Valley of the Queens. This is not to say that he was into drag. I’m not suggesting he was not into drag, but I have…
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November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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QV55 Tomb of Prince Amunherkhepeshef
If you struggle to remember how to say Hatshepsut this one is going to kill you. Prince Amunherkhepeshef is so difficult to say that the authorities of the Valley of the Queens simplified the name …
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November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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QV52- Tomb of Queen Tyti
Our first port of call in the Valley of the Queens was QV52. The tomb of Queen Tyti is a simple layout. From the entrance A you proceed down the corridor B to the chamber C which has storage chambe…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Valley of the Queens
The Valley of the Queens is in the same massif as the Valley of the Kings and between the two you can visit Deir el-Medina, the village where the tomb builders lived, and the Tombs of the Nobles. T…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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What have Fredo Corleone and Prince Andrew in common?
Their brothers had to wait for mother to die before pulling the trigger.
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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KV1 – Tomb of Ramesses VII
Our last visited tomb KV1 is one of the first you encounter at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. Because it is a small and simple tomb it is less busy than many of the others. For me this wa…
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October 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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KV9 – Tombs of Ramesses V & VI
Back when I worked in Advertising we used to joke that Theft is the most sincere form of Flattery. Tomb KV9 was intially built for Pharaoh Ramesses V, fourth pharaoh of the New Kingdom 20th dynasty…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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World War 3 is the legal case for a 3rd term.
He is that much of a narcissist that I guarantee it is an option on the table.
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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KV16 – Tomb of Ramesses I
The founding father of Egypt’s 19th Dynasty was not nobly born. He was father to Seti I and grandfather to Ramesses II (the Great). He came from a prominent military family based in the Nile …
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October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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KV11 – Tomb of Ramesses III
The first tomb we visited in the Valley of the Kings was the tomb of Ramesses III (KV11). For those paying attention we already met Ramesses III in Karnak where he constructed a temple for himself …
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October 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The Tomb of Ti
On our way from the Serapeum to the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara we visited the Mastaba of Ty, also known as the Tomb of Ti. As I was organizing my photographs of the tombs of the Valley of th…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Can Halloween get any scarier than this?
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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This is NOT a ceasefire.
#POTUS is living in CloudCuckooLand
Over 100 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza as Trump says 'nothing' will jeopardise ceasefire
The US President defended Benjamin Netanyahu’s ordered strikes, saying Israel “should hit back” after an Israeli soldier was killed.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Introduction to the Valley of the Kings
Don’t go. I mean it. Go to the Valley of the Queens. Go to the tombs of the nobles. You will have a better experience. The Valley of the Kings was, without exception, my worst nightmare of ev…
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October 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM