Another highlight of the trip was the
VALLEY OF THE KINGSIn the middle of fucking nowhere, there are tons of hidden underground tombs and tunnels where many of the most important pharaohs were buried with all their loot. There are no fancy temples visible from the ground, it looks like nothing but its full of shit hidden underground.
This is where they found Tutankhamen's tomb which was found by accident and had escaped 1000's of years of tomb robbers. But they are STILL DIGGING and looking for new stuff, as many pharaohs which should have been buried here have still not been found. Apparently sonar or whatever they have from satellites does not work because its too mountainous/rocky. So they are still hunting for loot the old fashioned way.
Here is a cool 3D model they made at the entrance for toursists:
This is a model of ABOVE GROUND, it shows the roads in black, and the little triangles are all the places they have dug and found shit.
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Then if you look UNDER the surface, you can see a scale model of all the tunnels and tombs they've mapped out from each of the little entrances:
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These tombs were crazy because since they were sealed up and protected from the elements, they were almost perfectly preserved. All the colors and paint inside were still there, you could see the brushstrokes as though it were painted yesterday:
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This was our guide. He was a badass. Not only a legit education in Egyptology and a walking encyclopedia (he could even read some hieroglyphics), but very street smart and able to handle any riffraff from the locals or bullshit with authority. He kept referring to most Egyptians as idiots. Later he explained that it sounded like he was being harsh but in his opinion they were actual idiots, lol he said with no education or knowledge of the world. He treated them kindly but as such, was interesting to watch him work
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trucks hauling out rocks and sand all day, still actively searching for treasure:
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If you look close you can see dudes in the background working in the hot sun hauling wheelbarrows of rocks back and forth, paid hands to dig and look for loot:
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