Luxor (AFP) – The tomb of Pharoah Amenhotep III, one of the largest in southern Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and Queens, is officially opened to the public, after years of restoration. Decades of deterioration had left the structure at risk of collapse. Carved into the hillside on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, the tomb is “decorated with wall paintings that are among the most exquisite of those surviving in the royal tombs of the Eighteenth Dynasty”, according to Japan’s UNESCO mission.
