Aswan City

Aswan is the largest city in southern Egypt and the third-largest city in all of Egypt. It has more than 200,000 people living there. It is the starting point for a trip to Abu Simbel, which is one of Egypt’s most famous temples, and it is also a very interesting place on its own. Aswan, like many other Egyptian towns, was built along the Nile.

Valley of the Queens

The Valley of the Queens, as named by Champollion, is located to the southwest of the Valley of the Kings and is where numerous royal wives and children are buried. Even though it was utilized as a cemetery as early as the 18th Dynasty, it wasn’t until the reign of 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses I that royal women began to be buried here. Among the almost eighty tombs in the valley, the most well-known belongs to Queen Nefertari [Read more about Ancient Egyptian pharaohs]; nevertheless, only a select few are accessible to visitors at any one time.

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