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From: Engineering failure analysis and design of support system for ancient Egyptian monuments in Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt

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Aerial photograph indicates the east (main) Valley of the Kings (KV) at Luxor Egypt. Modified after Google earth map. The tomb of Sons of Ramsses II (KV5) is located at the middle of the Valley of the Kings, East Valley, Thebes West Bank at Thebes. The Theban Mapping Project’s excavations have shown that KV 5 contains not just the six rooms first seen by Burton in 1825, but over 150 corridors and chambers dug deep into the hillside

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