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Valley of the Queens, Egypt
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Known as Ta-Set-Neferu ('the place of the children of the pharaoh') in ancient times, the Valley of the Queens contained a wealth of tombs and mortuary chapels where priests carried out daily rituals to mourn and commemorate the dead. Lying on the west bank of the Nile near ancient Thebes, the site is near the Valley of the Kings where the pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty were buried.
There are more than seventy tombs in this vast necropolis, of which the tomb of Queen Nefertari (1290-1224 BC), beloved wife of Ramesses II, is perhaps one of the best known.
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