Tombs of the Valley of the Kings in Luxor Ecological Consideration

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Published: Nov 27, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21625/resourceedings.v1i2.329

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Adel Yasseen
Ain Shams University

Abstract

By the eighteenth dynasty in the Egyptian Old History, funerary architecture was oriented towards a new direction in perceiving space and form, meaning and symbolizing, and pride and festivity.
As being a great city by that time, Luxor (Thebes) looked for a site that offered a similar dignified place as it was with the pyramid plateau in Giza, in the north, close to the previous Capital ”IUNU”. As much as the Giza plateau was worked out to receive the edifices on, the place in Thebes was chosen of highly qualified natural properties.
The place was on the sacred western side of the capital of the kingdom, in a huge valley formed through millions of years where its morphology could offer the dignity that we still feel, the geological formation was much easier to work through, tombs architecture within it offered the possibilities to preserve the traditions and the bodies of the great kings safe.
The paper aims at declaring the environmental capabilities of the architecture form of tombs of the Kings Valley of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties of the Old Egypt History.

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2018): Proceedings of the second international conference Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH)
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Research Papers

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