From Luxor : Habu Temple Valley Of Workers & Queens including the Entrance Fees.

Habu Temple Valley of Workers & Queens with Trivaeg Historical Trips.

• Habu Temple Valley is quite well preserved and surrounded by a massive mud brick enclosure, which may have been fortified.
• The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (and resembling an Asiatic fortress).
• The name at least its French form, Rhamesséion was coined by Jean-François Champollion, who visited the ruins of the site in 1829 and first identified the hieroglyphs making up Ramesses’s names and titles on the walls.
• Also you will be able to visit some other temples inside Habu Temple Such as Temple of Amun dating to the 18th Dynasty, built by Queen Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
• It has undergone many alterations and modifications over the years, partially in the 20th, 25th, 26th, 29th and 30th Dynasties and the Greco-Roman period.
• The tombs of these individuals were maintained by mortuary priests who performed daily rituals and provided offerings and prayers for the deceased nobility.
• The valley is located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile across from Thebes (modernLuxor).
• This barren area in the western hills was chosen due to its relative isolation and proximity to the capital.
  The kings of the 18th dynasty, instead of building pyramids as traditional burial chambers (perhaps because of their vulnerability to tomb robbers).
• Now chose to be interred in rock-cut tombs to Preserve it as possible as they can from tomb robbers