Ancient site · Luxor
El-Assasif Tombs
An ancient necropolis on the Luxor West Bank at the approach to Deir el-Bahari, holding tombs that span roughly a thousand years of ancient Egyptian history.
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El-Assasif is a necropolis on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes in Upper Egypt, near Luxor. It lies in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari, south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'. It holds tombs mainly of the 18th, 25th and 26th dynasties, covering roughly 1550 to 525 BC.
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- The tombs at El-Assasif cover the period from about 1550 to 525 BC.