The valley named for a rope hanging down a cliff

Hidden away in the heart of the Theban Necropolis, the Valley of the Rope - or Ouadi Habl in modern Egyptian - was used as a necropolis at the beginning of the XVIIIe dynastie. Located west of the current city of Luxor, this small valley sits to the north of the Valley of the Queens and served as an annex to both that area and the Valley of the Three Pits.

The valley was named by European visitors because of a long rope hanging down a neighboring cliff. It has been the subject of numerous excavations, including an Italian team led by Ernesto Schiaparelli between 1903 and 1905, and an American team led by Elizabeth Thomas between 1959 and 1960.

Further exploration included the Theban Mapping Project in 1981, a Franco-Egyptian mission in the 1990s, and a final American-Egyptian mission involving the Getty Conservation Institute. The tombs within the valley are identified with the letters QV, similar to those in the Valley of the Queens.

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