The grave of Pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt restores it to reopen to the public after renewing for two decades

One of the largest graves in EgyptThe Valley of the Kings was reopened to visitors more than 20 years of renewal.

The huge tomb of Ameenhotep III, which ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 BC and 1350 BC, is carried out, along with the hill on the West Bank of the Nile River near the southern Egyptian city of symbols. It was discovered in 1799 by two people, and its contents were looted, including the coffin, according to the Egyptian antiquities authorities.

Mohamed Ismail, Secretary -General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that it was a three -fold restoration project led by the Japanese over the past two decades, including the renewal of Pharaoh’s paintings and his wife on the walls of the grave.

“It is a very wonderful grave,” he told the Associated Press newspaper at the scene of the Associated Press.

Grave It starts with a orcses of 118 feet and 45 feet deep, down the bottom of the Valley of the Kings. It includes a major burial room for the king, and two other rooms for his wives, Queens Tayye and Stamon.

Unlike the other ancient graves in the valley, the grave was not fully decorated. Her paintings are showed by Ameenhotep III with a group of ancient Egyptian deities, and the burial room contains inscriptions from the Dead book, a group of talismans that aim to direct the dead across the underworld in ancient Egypt.

Ameenhotep III mummy was transferred by ancient priests to the grave of his grandfather, AENHOTEP II, also in the Valley of the Kings, according to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. The damaged mummy is highly displayed in the museum with 16 other mummies of 17 kings and ancient Egypt.

Ameenhotep III was one of the most prominent Pharaohs in the eighteenth family from ancient Egypt, which ruled between 1550 BC and 1292 BC known as the Great Ameenhotep, the throne ascended when he was a teenager and a referee for up to 38 years, according to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

The reopening of the grave came less than a month before the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Pyramids of Giza. The museum is scheduled to open on November 1.

Re -opening is part of Egypt’s efforts to attract more foreign visitors to revive the tourism sector, which is a major source of foreign currency. Tourism, which relies heavily on the rich Pharaonic artifacts in Egypt, suffered a long contraction after the political turmoil and violence that followed the 2011 uprising.