Overview
The Theban Necropolis is a necropolis on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes in Upper Egypt. It was used for ritual burials for much of the Pharaonic period, especially during the New Kingdom.
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Description
the Theban Necropolis testifies to the same obsession with death and resurrection that produced the Pyramids. Mindful of how these had failed to protect the mummies of the Old Kingdom pharaohs, later rulers opted for concealment, sinking their tombs in the arid Theban Hills while perpetuating their memory with gigantic mortuary temples on the plain below. The Necropolis straddled the border between the lands of the living and the dead, verdant flood plain giving way to boundless desert, echoing the path of the dead “going west” to meet Osiris as the sun set over the mountains and descended into the underworld.
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