{"id":209632,"date":"2025-10-12T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-opens-one-of-the-valley-of-the-kings-largest-tombs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:09:54","slug":"egypt-opens-one-of-the-valley-of-the-kings-largest-tombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-opens-one-of-the-valley-of-the-kings-largest-tombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Opens One of the Valley of the Kings&#8217; Largest Tombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>The tomb of Amenhotep III has been opened to the public after undergoing 20 years of renovation with support from the Japanese government and UNESCO.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, ruler of ancient\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/egypt\/t-18332328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egypt<\/a>\u00a0between 1390 B.C.E. and 1350 B.C.E., was opened on Saturday to the public in Luxor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The tomb is one of the largest in the\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/egypt-says-unveils-first-kings-tomb-in-over-a-century\/a-71677763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valley of the Kings<\/a>\u00a0and has been undergoing two decades of renovation work under a Japanese-led, three-phased restoration project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><strong>Tomb over 3,000 years old<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060086.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tomb of Amenhotep III has been opened to the public after undergoing 20 years of renovation with support from the Japanese government and UNESCO. The tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, ruler of ancient\u00a0Egypt\u00a0between 1390 B.C.E. and 1350 B.C.E., was opened on Saturday to the public in Luxor. The tomb is one of the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":209633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671590:2195bb7f4a5f0fa774c127e6eecd2f41:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,14500,10885,257,6975,254,41772,14394],"class_list":["post-209632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-kings","tag-largest","tag-news","tag-opens","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tombs","tag-valley"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671590:2195bb7f4a5f0fa774c127e6eecd2f41:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}