The pharaohs cut their tombs into a mountain on the west bank at Thebes and hid the doors. Belzoni found the longest and deepest of them in 1817, seventeen chambers descending into rock. El Qurn, the peak standing over the valley, is a natural pyramid, and it is thought to be why the site was chosen.
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