Scattered through the rocky hills on the West Bank of Luxor are the tombs of ancient Egypt’s nobles and high officials. Valley of the Nobles tombs are some of the best in Luxor, but least visited. So many tombs were discovered there and the whole area is still under excavation searching for more tombs to be discovered.
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Nobles in Egyptian society were related to the pharaoh, priests, scribes, doctors or important military. Many of the nobles were overseers of the lands worked by peasants. Taxes from these lands were paid to the government in the form of crops or cattle. These crops in turn were used to pay skilled workers and peasants for their labor on governmental projects.
They used jewelry for ornamentation, round collars of jewels or beads, they decorated their wrists and upper arms with rings bracelets.
Both for beauty and protection from the heat, they wore long. heavy black wigs of sheep’s wool or human hair, they also wore striped or embroidered headdresses to signify their upper social standing.
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The majority of the tombs were designed in two parts: a wide court leading to a hall that was sometimes supported by pillars or columns, and a long corridor to the rear leading to the offering shrine that had niches for the statue of the deceased. The walls was covered by a white clay which was painted later.
The most important tomb in Valley of the Nobles is tomb number 55, which belongs to Ra-Mose, he was the mayor of Thebes during the time of king Amenophis III and his son Amenophis IV who changed his name to be Akhenaten.
Unfortunately this tomb is unfinished because Ra-Mose moved, with Akhenaten to the new capital Tel el-Amarna, therefore the decoration work stopped, and the tomb was left unfinished.
