Take advantage of your visit to Luxor and explore one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world "The Valley of The Kings" which situated on the ancient site of Thebes, on Luxor's West Bank! It's the ancient burial ground of many of the rulers of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth dynasties of Egypt’s prosperous the New Kingdom, hence its modern name of the Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings is divided into the East and West Valleys. The eastern is by far the more iconic of the two, as the western valley contains only a handful of tombs. In all, the Valley of the Kings includes over sixty tombs for Ramesses VI, Tomb of Sety I (KV17), Tomb of Tutankhamun among others, and an additional twenty unfinished ones that are little more than pits. The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology and give clues as to the beliefs and funerary practices of the period.