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A self-guided audio tour of the New Kingdom royal cemetery under the pyramid-shaped peak of the Qurn: the valley's geology and history, then tomb by tomb, from Ramesses VII near the entrance to Tutankhamun's KV62 and Carter's discovery of 1922, the astronomical ceilings of Ramesses VI and Seti I, Amenhotep II's tomb where the royal mummy cache was found in 1898, and Thutmose III's tomb high in its ravine, with the workmen's path over the ridge and the West Valley of Amenhotep III and Ay. Tombs rotate between open and closed, some need a separate ticket, and Seti I's is almost always closed; closed tombs are told from their entrances. 28 narrated stops, about 3 km on foot in the main valley.
28 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 96 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 275 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Valley of the Kings, KV1 Ramesses VII, KV2 Ramesses IV, KV4 Ramesses XI, KV5 Sons of Ramesses II, KV7 Ramesses II, KV6 Ramesses IX, KV55, the Amarna cache, KV62 Tutankhamun.
KV9 Ramesses V and Ramesses VI, KV63, KV10 Amenmesse, KV8 Merenptah, KV57 Horemheb, KV11 Ramesses III, KV16 Ramesses I, KV17 Seti I, KV19 Mentuherkhepeshef, KV43 Thutmose IV, KV20 Hatshepsut.
KV35 Amenhotep II, KV13 Bay, KV14 Tausret and Setnakhte, KV47 Siptah, KV15 Seti II, KV34 Thutmose III, The workmen's path and the Qurn, West Valley.
The only substantially intact royal burial found in the valley, where the king's mummy still lies in the antechamber.
A vaulted burial chamber where the sky goddess Nut swallows the sun at evening and gives birth to it at dawn.
Found by Belzoni in 1817, with an astronomical ceiling and a passage cut deeper still beneath the burial chamber.
A star-covered burial chamber where Victor Loret found a cache of royal mummies in 1898.
A cartouche-shaped chamber with the whole Amduat drawn in stick figures, as if a papyrus had been unrolled on the walls.
The route the tomb-builders of Deir el-Medina walked over the ridge, beneath the pyramid-shaped peak.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 28 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 28 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in The Valley of the Kings — the Royal Tombs of Thebes, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
28 narration points, including Valley of the Kings, KV2 Ramesses IV, KV5 Sons of Ramesses II, KV6 Ramesses IX and KV9 Ramesses V and Ramesses VI. That is about 53 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
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Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~2½ hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 28 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.