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The Valley of the Kings was a collection of monuments built to the Pharaohs (kings) of their time. The Egyptians started building these collections of tombs mainly during 1500 - 1100 BCE, although there are some tombs that can be dated back to the 1800s.

The purpose of these tombs was to hold the decaying bodies of the kings to honor their life and prepare the king for the next world. The Egyptians used a process called a mummification process to preserve the bodies of the dead. They would bury the body in a sarcophagus and place any treasured belongings inside the tomb as they believed the treasures buried with them in the past would grant them fortune for their next life.

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