where is pyramids of giza located?
Giza Plateau
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 Perhaps the most imposing tomb of this period is that of Amenhotep III , WV22 located in the West Valley . It has been re @-@ investigated in the 1990s ( by a team from Waseda University , Japan ) but is not open to the public . 

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 Sahure chose to construct his pyramid complex in Abusir , thereby abandoning both Saqqara and Giza , which had been the royal necropolises up to that time . A possible motivation for Sahure 's decision was the presence of the sun temple of Userkaf . 

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 At the same time , and just opposite his own tomb , Ramesses enlarged the earlier small tomb of an unknown Eighteenth Dynasty noble ( KV5 ) for his numerous sons . With 120 known rooms and excavation work still underway , it is probably the largest tomb in the valley . Originally opened ( and robbed ) in antiquity , it is a low @-@ lying structure that has been particularly prone to the flash floods that sometimes hit the area , which washed in tonnes of debris and material over the centuries , ultimately concealing its vast size . It is not currently open to the public . 

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 During a 1982 survey of the Zarqa valley , a number Early Iron Age sites were discovered , concentrated along the banks of the Zerqa and its tributaries . One of them , Tulul adh @-@ Dhahab , is under further research now . 

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 The other Amarna period tombs are located in a smaller , central area in the centre of the East Valley , with a possible mummy cache ( KV55 ) that may contain the burials of several Amarna Period royals — Tiy and Smenkhkare or Akhenaten . 
