Which Egyptian valley contains tombs of pharaohs from the 18th to 20th dynasties?

The Egyptian valley containing pharaohs’ tombs from the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties is the Valley of the Kings.

The valley lies on the west bank of the Nile opposite ancient Thebes, in modern Luxor. During Egypt’s New Kingdom, roughly 1550–1070 BCE, rulers chose this dry, rugged wadi as a royal burial ground. Its secluded location and surrounding cliffs offered protection from floods and helped conceal tomb entrances.

Many tombs were cut deep into the rock and decorated with texts and scenes intended to guide the dead through the afterlife. The most famous discovery was tomb KV62, the burial place of Tutankhamun, found by Howard Carter in 1922. Tutankhamun’s tomb was relatively small but exceptionally valuable because much of its funerary equipment survived.

The Valley of the Kings is not the same as the Valley of the Queens, which primarily held royal women and children, or the Valley of the Nobles, where officials were buried. The valley also contains tombs of powerful nonroyal figures, but its defining association is with New Kingdom pharaohs.