Tombs of the Kings

Tombs of the Kings

There are a number of sites known as the Tombs of the Kings:

*Tombs of the Kings, Paphos, Cyprus
*Tombs of the Kings, Jerusalem, Israel
*The Valley of the Kings in Egypt was sometimes known as the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings (see, for example, H. Carter, "Report on tomb-pit opened on the 26th January 1901 in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings", "Les annales du service des antiquités de l’égypte" 2 (1901). 144-5)


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