Qualla: Valley of the Queens https://qualla.com/valley-of-the-queens en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/valley-of-the-queens-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Valley of the Queens https://qualla.com/valley-of-the-queens Valley of the Queens: Introduction https://qualla.com/valley-of-the-queens/ Photo credit Original uploader was User:Kingtut at hu.wikipedia, Public domain. The ancient Egyptians called this place Ta-Set-Neferu, a name that meant both "the Place of Beauty" and "the Place of the Royal Children" - and they meant both. Tucked into a parched fold of the Theban hills, a short walk from where the pharaohs themselves lay in the Valley of the Kings, this narrow desert basin became a cemetery for the women and children of Egypt's royal house. For roughly four centuries, queens, princesses, and young princes were carried here to be sealed into the rock. The valley holds more than a hundred tombs in all. One of them is among the most beautiful paintings to survive from the ancient world.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/valley-of-the-queens-wp/ssx4-valley-of-the-queens-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Valley of the Queens: Why Here https://qualla.com/valley-of-the-queens/ Photo credit Original uploader was Markh at en.wikipedia, Public domain. No surviving text explains the choice, and Egyptologists are left to read the landscape itself. The valley sits close to Deir el-Medina, the walled village of the artisans who cut and decorated the royal tombs - the same skilled hands worked both sides of the ridge. It lies a sho...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/valley-of-the-queens-wp/ssx4-valley-of-the-queens-why-here.mp3 0:06 2 full Valley of the Queens: Nefertari's Rooms https://qualla.com/valley-of-the-queens/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.5. The valley's masterpiece belongs to Nefertari, the beloved great wife of Ramesses II, the pharaoh who ruled for sixty-six years and called himself the Great. Her tomb, designated QV66, was found in 1904 by the Italian Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, who held the excavation rig...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/valley-of-the-queens-wp/ssx4-valley-of-the-queens-nefertaris-rooms.mp3 0:06 3 full Valley of the Queens: The Salt and the Slumping Hills https://qualla.com/valley-of-the-queens/ Photo credit Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0. Beauty this fragile does not survive on its own. The valley is cut into a treacherous mix of limestone, clay, and shale, faulted and tilted over millions of years. The clays swell and shrink with every rare flash flood, cracking tomb walls; groundwater seeps in and leaves crystal...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/valley-of-the-queens-wp/ssx4-valley-of-the-queens-the-salt-and-the-slumping-hills.mp3 0:06 4 full Valley of the Queens: A Family Across the Ridge https://qualla.com/valley-of-the-queens/ Photo credit Tomb_of_King_Setnakht.jpg: Francesco Gasparetti derivative work: JMCC1 (talk), CC BY 2.0. Not everyone in the royal family came to rest here. During the Eighteenth Dynasty, the valley took nobles and officials alongside royals - a head of the stables, a vizier, an early princess named Ahmose. By the Nineteenth Dynasty, under Ramesses I, Seti I, and Ramesses II, it nar...

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