Valley of the Kings Wallpapers

The Valley of the Kings Egypt - photo wallpapers: On the mountain-side behind Thebes there are many small valleys of which the Valley of the Kings, also known as "the tombs of the king of Biban el-Muluk" is the most famous. Originally it appeared as a gorge lost among the rocky ravines. Today even though roads have been built making access much casier, it still retains intact its mysterious fascination. Its history began with the unlikely decision of a pharaoh, Tutmose I, not only to build his tomb away from the funerary temple but to ensure his body burial not in a monument but in a secret place. His resolution to do this broke a tradition going back 1700 years. The architect, Ineni, excavated for the sovereign a vell-like tomb in an isolated valley and then carved out of the rock a steep stairway leading down to the burial chamber, thus setting a precedent which was followed by all successive pharaohs. Tutmose Is rest however did not last long, neither did that of the other kings. The history of the Valley of the Kings is one long story of pillaging, plundering and night time robberies by the light of a few torches. It was not only thives, who already during the pharaonic era were engaged in systematic plundering to obtain the also religious and devout men who, knowing that their sovereigns were not safe, carried them away from one burial spot to bury them in another. And so it went on; Ramses III was buried three times! Almost all the inhabintants of the village of Gurnah made a living from this commerce of objects stolen from the tombs, the plundering of tombs having for all practical purposes become a regular occupation which from the XIIIth century B.C. onwards was passed down from father to son. The family of Abdul Rasul was the guardian of a great secret: the sarcophagi of thirty six pharaohs were gathered together in a single isolated anonymous burial place. The secret came to light in 1881 after a long interrogation of a member of the family. The Deputy Director of the Cairo Museum, Emil Brugsch-Bey, was then taken to the mouth of the pit. It is hard to imagine what this scholar must have felt when the light of the torch revealed the mortal remains of the great pharaohs of the ancient world all jumbled together higgledy-piggledy. Before him lay Amosis I, Amon-Ofis I, Tutmose III and Ramses II (Ramses the Great)....

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