The Valley of the Queens is located on the West Bank at Luxor (ancient Thebes) near Valley of the Kings; (Thebes was the capital of the Ancient Egyptian dynasties during the period of the New Kingdom) There are between 75 and 80 tombs in the Valley of the Queens, or Biban al-Harim.  These belong to Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties.

The Valley of the Queens is a place in where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning the place of the Children of the Pharaoh. The tombs of these individuals were maintained by mortuary priests who performed daily rituals and provided offerings and prayers for the deceased nobility.

This valley contains several tombs which started to be built in the Valley of the Queens during the period of the New Kingdom (1570 BC – 1070 BC).

There are over 100 tombs such as The Tomb of Khaemwese; The Tomb of Queen Titi (She is probably the queen of a 20th Dynasty); The Tomb of Amenhikhopeshef (was a son of Ramesses III); the most famous of all the tombs in the Valley of the Queens was that of Nefertari (One of five wives of Ramesses II, Nefertari was his favorite) The tomb deals with two major issues, Nefertari’s beauty and her religious zeal. There are no battle scenes or depictions of her good, worldly actions. The quality of the wall paintings and the color splendor rivals the very best found in the Valley of the Kings ; In order to protect the tomb, only 150 visitors are allowed every day, and all must wear masks and shoe pads.

The tombs were built according to patterns from the Valley of the Kings, but on a smaller scale and most of the tombs are very simple; the general layout is long corridor with antechambers and the burial chamber at the end.

About ninety tombs have been located in the valley, some of them simple pit tombs, others with corridors along a straight or L-shaped axis with small side chambers. A few, mostly from the reign of Rameses II. At least ten of the tombs begun in the valley were never finished, probably because poor quality bedrock; over sixty per cent of the tombs known today are anonymous because such damage has erased evidence of names or titles.