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For a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC,
tombs were constructed for the kings and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom
(the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt).
The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology
and give clues to the beliefs and funerary rituals of the period.
Long passages lead deep into the ground.