Egypt 8: The Valley of the Kings

 For about 500 years, starting around 1500 BCE, Egyptians kings and nobles were buried in the Valley of the Kings, a desolate region on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor).  There are more than fifty discovered tombs, most famously that of Tutankhaman.

I took these pictures in the tombs of Ramesses 3 and Ramesses 4.  About ten of the tombs are open; King Tut's is not.   

The Egyptians believed that when you die Anubis, the jackal-headed god weighs your heart against a feather. If it is heavier, you don't get into the afterlife. The book of Exodus tells us six times that Pharoah's heart was heavy...  

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