The latest tombs opened to the visitors are those of Roy and Suroy, located at Dra abdl Nagah, just along the road to the Valley of the Kings. They have been open for a long time, destroyed by touristsm then closed by the government for years and now completely restored, opened in 1997. They are almost side by side and on first side they both are lookalike, but when your are looking carefully you see two different worlds, because the tombs differ in so many ways. Where Roy shows magnificent scenes of agriculure and is decorated with care and almost devotion, the tomb of Suroy lacks all of that and shows hasty and careless work. So on first sight you would think that its almost the same, but in detail it was definitely not the same artist.
This is a small but magnificent and colorfull tomb and really worth a visit.
Tombs: Open, no glass, LE30 for 2 tombs, since June 2003 its no longer allowed to take pictures
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Last updated 12 february 2004 by Paul Biesta
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