The Valley of the Queens, or Wadi el-Malekat (وادي الملكات) in Arabic, is a wadi used as a necropolis for mainly royalty during the New Kingdom. It is located on the west bank of the Nile, across from Thebes (modern Luxor) and forms part of the larger Theban Necropolis.
The tombs are numbered in the order of 'discovery', although some of the tombs have been open since antiquity. The abbreviation "QV" stands for "Queens' Valley". A number of the tombs are unoccupied, the owners of others remain unknown, and some are merely pits used for storage. Only the principal tombs are noted here (these are the publicly accessible or best known tombs).
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