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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER III
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The Ramesside Pharaohs followed one after the other.

Herhor may perhaps have been the last of the series.

These crowded catacombs caused the place to be called "The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings,"-- a name which it retains to this day.
These tombs are not complete.

Each had its chapel; but those chapels stood far away in the plain, at Gurneh, at the Ramesseum, at Medinet Habu; and they have already been described.

The Theban rock, like the Memphite pyramid, contained only the passages and the sepulchral chamber.


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