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Inside the Valley of the Kings | A 3-Hour Sleep Documentary

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Descend corridor by corridor into the tombs of the New Kingdom pharaohs, with the texts on their walls explained along the way.

Visuals in NeoKemet films are AI-assisted archaeological reconstructions, not photographs or footage. Narration is written for the channel and sources are listed in each video's YouTube description.

18th Dynasty

Thutmose III

The Napoleon of Egypt · c. 1479–1425 BCE

Crowned as a child and overshadowed for two decades by his stepmother Hatshepsut, Thutmose III went on to become Egypt's greatest military king. His victory at Megiddo opened…

18th Dynasty

Tutankhamun

The boy king · c. 1336–1327 BCE

Born Tutankhaten, probably a son of Akhenaten, the young king changed his name to Tutankhamun as the court returned to Thebes and Memphis and the old gods were restored.

19th Dynasty

Ramesses II

Ramesses the Great · c. 1279–1213 BCE

The third king of the 19th Dynasty, Ramesses II outlived many of his children and became, in later memory, the model of what a pharaoh should be. Nine later kings took his name.

20th Dynasty

Ramesses III

Last great pharaoh of the New Kingdom · c. 1184–1153 BCE

Ramesses III fought off the migrating Sea Peoples in the eighth year of his reign, and his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu preserves the only large-scale depiction of a naval…

Cut-away 3D model of Tutankhamun's tomb beneath the valley floor, showing the stairway, corridor, antechamber, annexe, painted burial chamber and treasury.

KV62

Tomb of Tutankhamun

Valley of the Kings, western Thebes

Small for a royal tomb, KV62 may originally have been prepared for someone else and adapted after the king's early death. Only the burial chamber is decorated, with scenes…

KV34

Tomb of Thutmose III

Valley of the Kings, western Thebes

Cut high in a cleft of the cliffs and reached by a steep stair, KV34 was designed to be hidden. Its oval burial chamber is painted with the complete Amduat, the guide to the sun…

KV7

Tomb of Ramesses II

Valley of the Kings, western Thebes

One of the largest tombs in the valley, KV7 was visible in antiquity but has been repeatedly flooded, leaving its decoration badly damaged. A French mission led by Christian…

18th Dynasty

Gold Mask of Tutankhamun

Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza

The mask covered the head and shoulders of the king's mummy inside the innermost of three nested coffins. It shows him wearing the striped nemes headcloth with the vulture and…