The Valley of the Kings by Zander

Us in front of the Hatshepsut temple.

The Ancient Egyptians believed in elaborate and costly rituals to get to life after death. The Egyptians built tomb for their pharohs for a long time. They built step pyramids, then smooth face pyramids. Then last of all they built hidden tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings is located deep in the Theban hills right across the Nile from Luxor.  The Pharaoh that got the idea to hide his tomb in a mountain was Tuthmosis I in 1500 B. C. The Valley of the Kings was a perfect place for King Tuthmosis I to place his tomb because it was safe from robbers, it was a great location relative to the Capital, and because it had really good stone to carve with.

Us getting on a plane to Athens yaayayayayayaya!!!!!

            One of the reasons Tuthmosis I buried his body in the Valley of the Kings to keep his tomb safe from robbers. The pyramids were easy to steel from because everyone knew that the entrance was on the north side of the pyramid for religious reasons. When Tuthmosis made his tomb, he put his entrance facing a different angle. When the tomb was finished he arranged it to be covered it in sand and rock so it would be hard to find. Plus nobody lived or went to the valley where the king Tuthmosis chose to be buried. The Valley of the Kings is located directly across the Nile from Luxor, the capital at the time. The Valley of the Kings was on the west side of the Nile because it is the way the sun sets. In Ancient Egypt the west symbolizes death, while east symbolizes life. One of the major contributing factors that the Tombs were built in the valley was because of the soil and rock. The rock there is really easy to carve, so making tunnels is easier. With all the pharohs attempts to make there tombs safe from robbers, even though there attempts most of them got stolen from.

me kissing the

Sphinx !

            Tuthmosis I built his tomb deep in the Theban hills because, it would be hard to steel from, it was in a great location relative to his capital, and the soil and rocks were practical on the site. When a pharohs  dies he cannot protected his temples and tomb, so they are open to theft and vandalizing. All the known Ancient Egyptian pharohs  tombs including king Tuts, were stolen from to some extent. Tuthmosis plan to keep his tombs safe from robbery didn’t work. The main reason that it didn’t, was because most of the pharohs  after Tuthmosis were buried in the same location. If they had spread out a lot then maybe more of the tombs would have been intact. There are 62 known tombs in the valley, so you can imagine that everyone knew about it where the kings were buried. The pharohs   wanted big tombs like the Pyramids. But if they built them then they would probably get stolen from. So the Valley of the Kings is a good example if the pharohs  trying to hide their tombs and save it from robbery.  

Interesting facts

-King Tut's tomb was not free of getting stolen from, all the perfumes, and cloth were more valuable then  gold in Ancient Egypt so they got stolen first.

-There are 13 gates to get to the Afterlife. There are Guards at all of the Gates and they won’t let you pass willingly. To get past the guards, the pharohs had to say the passwords. The third gate was the hardest to pass because a serpent guard guarded the gate.

-The Passwords were writen on the walls of the pharohs  tomb so he didn’t have to memorize them.

-When they got through all of the Gates they were escorted to where their heart was weighed against the feather. If the feather is lighter then the heart then they will go to hell. If the heart is lighter then the feather then they will go to heaven. 

-When the tomb gets robbed they take the mummy, if the robbers do that then the pharohs  will wander in his tomb forever, because he cannot find his body.

- If the king died before they were done with his tomb then they would have to work really hard to finish the tomb, and put all of his treasures in it as fast as they can. So that is why some tombs look nicer at the beginnings. Then as it progresses some of them get worse. 

PS WE DON'T HAVE ANY PICTURES OF THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS BECAUSE THEY TOOK AWAY OUR CAMERA!!!!!! SORRY