Abstract
Abstract Valley of the Kings (Biban el-Muluk) the desert necropolis on the west bank of the Nile opposite the ancient Egyptian capital of thebes. The 18th Dynasty, having cleared Egypt of the hyksos, the Asiatic invaders of the Second Intermediate Period (1640–1532 b.c.), began to build elaborate mortuary complexes of great splendor at Thebes. amenhotep i (1525–1504 b.c.) is credited with having devised the plan of separating the royal tombs from mortuary temples, but he was buried probably at Dra’Abu-el-Naga’. tuthmosis i, his successor, was the first king to have a tomb cut into the cliffs of the Valley of the Kings.
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