Valley of the Kings (Thebes)

The Valley of the Kings (also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings) is an area of rock-cut tombs used as a royal necropolis during ancient Egypt's New Kingdom. According to the supplied sources, it was used for nearly 500 years—from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties—as the burial place for pharaohs and powerful nobles. The site is identified in the sources as a necropolis associated with Thebes; the supplied excerpts do not provide specific construction dates for individual tombs, discovery histories, or modern management details. The research materials provided contain no accounts of hauntings, curses, apparitions, sounds, or other paranormal phenomena tied to the Valley of the Kings or to Tutankhamun's Tomb. No supernatural entities or investigator theories are named in the supplied sources. Likewise, the archival items included in the source list do not supply any relevant folkloric or eyewitness material concerning the site. Culturally and historically, the site's significance in the sources lies in its role as the principal royal burial ground of the New Kingdom, shaping our understanding of ancient Egyptian funerary practice and royal mortuary architecture.