Located on the West Bank in Luxor (ancient
Thebes), the Valley of the Queens was
the burial site of the queens and some royal children of the 18th,
19th and 20th dynasties. The site which is also called,
Biban al-Harim embraces more than 80 tombs, however only four are open to the public.
Visitors can enter the burial places of
Queen Titi, the Ramesside princes
Khaemwaset and Amunherkhepshef, and the tomb considered to be the
finest in Egypt: that of Nefertari.
Nefertari
was the first of Ramesses the Great's Royal Wives whose importance can be felt
immediately on entering her spectacular tomb. She is the one that Ramesses
called “the one for whom the sun shines.