Key facts
- Location
- Luxor , Egypt
- Official name
- Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
- i, iii, vi
- Designated
- 1979 ( third session )
- Region
- Arab states
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Valle de las Reinas, Luxor, Egipto, 2022-04-03, DD 17.jpg
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- Commons category
- Valley of the Queens
- native label
- وادي الملكات
- end time
- 1070-00-00
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Ta-set-neferu T3-st-nfrw The place of beauty
The Valley of the Queens is a site in Egypt, in which queens, princes, princesses, and other high-ranking officials were buried from roughly 1560 BC to 1130 BC. Pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Queens was known anciently as Ta-Set-Neferu, which has a double meaning of "The Place of Beauty" and/or "the Place of the Royal Children". Excavation of the tombs at the Valley of the Queens was pioneered by Ernesto Schiaparelli and Francesco Ballerini in the early 1900s.