Today was another very, very early morning so we could beat the crowds to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. Out of the 62+ tombs in the valley we only saw four, but those four were spectacular. King Tut’s tomb doesn’t have much in it because all of the treasures are in the museum in Cairo.
Probably my favourite was the tomb of Ramses V and Ramses VI. Yes, that’s right, this tomb belonged to two kings. When Ramses VI was looking for a great tomb for himself he just gobbled up the space in the tomb of Ramses V. You walk down a wide, colourful corridor with thousands of hieroglyphs and bright paintings on every wall and even the ceiling. When you get to the burial chamber there is a partial sarcophagus of Ramses VI and a giant painting of the goddess Nut on the ceiling. She swallows the sun each evening and burps it back up the next morning. The other special things about this tomb was that there were only four of us in it—that was a really cool experience. After the valley of the Kings we bused over to the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. It is built into the side of a cliff. It is so massive that we took a little train up to see it. Interesting fact: Hatshepsut was a FEMALE Pharaoh. Did you know there had been a female Pharaoh? Off to the country of Jordan tomorrow. You are always in my Prayers. Love Mom.
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ajb
2/4/2019 09:52:33 am
Some of the tombs were robbed but they were caught before any damage was done.
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Diane
2/6/2019 08:43:11 am
Actually most were robbed and that is why King Tuts was so special.
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Mason
2/4/2019 10:02:22 am
Why was there a girl pharoh
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Diane
2/6/2019 08:44:01 am
She took the power from her young son and nephew and she was very good at it.
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Ms. Arnold"s Class
2/5/2019 09:44:15 am
We love your photos! We did not know there were female Pharaohs! Do you have any photos of her? How long was the bus ride to the temple? Were the painting full of patterns? Are the tombs of different Kings/Pharaohs different?
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Diane
2/6/2019 08:48:25 am
Of course there were no photos back then but there were statues of her...we will try to find a picture for when we visit.
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RS
2/5/2019 10:59:54 am
I like the part about the painting of goddess Nut 😀
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Diane
2/6/2019 08:49:10 am
It was hard to get a picture but she was actually across the whole ceiling.
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Olivia-Rose
2/5/2019 11:02:05 am
Wow!Your trip sounds awesome so far.😍 But what is the goddess Nut supposed to be?😕
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Diane
2/6/2019 08:50:13 am
She is often on the ceiling of tombs. She is the sky. She swallows the sun each day so that we have night.
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jordan
2/5/2019 11:03:35 am
Do you know what the hieroglyphs on the wall decode and say?
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Diane
2/6/2019 08:51:23 am
We could figure out some of the from our studies, like “son of Ra” or “lord of everything” but we couldn’t read them all.
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Nic
2/5/2019 11:09:29 am
Is it true that you will be cursed if you loot a pharaohs tomb? If so do you know anyone that has been cursed?
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Diane
2/6/2019 08:52:31 am
There are a lot of legends about curses, but I think people dying after looting is just a coincidence
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