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In Eighteenth Century, it was hard to travel from England to

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because of the distance which will take a lot of time and its huge cost, so you find that few of travellers can travel all this distance. The first one who travelled from Europe to Luxor was the adventurer Frederic Louis who registers what he sees in the Valley of the Kings. In 1743, the second traveller came and went to the Valley of the Kings; he was Richard Pococke who publicated the first map of the Valley of the Kings. Then in 1799, when the campaign of Napoleon came to

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they designed a lot of maps for the tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs which they discovered in the Valley of the Kings. In Nineteenth Century, Belzoni discovered a lot of tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings like: Tomb number 23 in the west Valley which belonged to Ay, tomb number 17 which belonged to Seti, it was discovered in 1817. During this period, the explorations of the Europeans lasted in Thebes. After that there were another attempts of archaeologists in discovering tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs, for example in 1827 John Wilkinson painted the entrance of 21 tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs in the Valley Of The kings and these paintings are using until now. In 1830, these paintings were published in the reliefs of Luxor. In this year, the explorer James Burton discovered tomb number 5, also made tomb number 17 in safe because of flooding. There were an expedition in Luxor in 1829 for two months, in this expedition was the leader Champollion and others, those people saw 16 of the discovered tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs, they take some of the decoration from the walls of the tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs and put them in Louvre Museum in France. In the expedition of Carle Richard in 1845, they discovered the Valley of the Kings; they discovered about 25 tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs. During this century, Auguste Mariette who was working for the

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ian Antiquities Service worked with EugÃ©ne LefÃ©bre, Jules Balliet, George BÃ©nÃ©dite and Victor Loret, through his work with those people he was able to discover tomb number 6 and tomb number 9 in the Valley of the Kings. (Tomb number 9) Also Gaston Maspero who was working as the head of the

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ian Antiquities Service working with Howard Carter who was working as the Chief Inspector of Upper

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, both of them helped in the discovery of tomb number 20 and tomb number 42. In Twentieth Century, Theodore Davis and his staff had an excavation permission in The Valley Of The kings of the kings, they explored a lot of royal tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs and tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs which were not royal like tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs number 43, 46, and 57. In 1922, Howard Carter discovered tomb number 62 of Tutankhamun. (Tomb number 62 of Tutankhamun) (Tomb number 43) The tomb number 55 which is considered the biggest tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered at the end of the twentieth century, sons of Ramses II were buried in this tomb. In the twenty-first century, a lot of explorations were lasted in the Valley of the Kings; all of these explorations increase the culture and importance of The Valley Of The kings. In 2001, the map of Luxor was drew the new tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs which were discovered in The Valley Of The kings as the people who made that thought there will not be any other tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs but after that another tombs in the Valley of the kings of the pharaohs were discovered like tomb number 63 which was discovered by an American Archaeologist in 2006, this tomb include about five mummies with colored masks.

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