Egypt has fascinated so many for so long. This is such a cool way to bring it to us. Take the tour. I love how the guide takes you up close so you can almost touch it. Love the history within history even tho what the consul did makes me angry. The story is laid out before you.

Wow! That was super cool!

I wish more places had 3d tours like this. I really enjoyed it.

This tomb has undergone several periods of restoration over the years and lot of it was to preserve the delicate wall paintings from decay and damage caused by tourist’s breaths. Not joking, really.

also despite its grandeur, the tomb was not the final resting place of Ramesses II. His mummified remains were moved to the Royal Cache, a hidden chamber designed to hide pharaoh bodies from robbers.

There is a hole in the floor of one of the side chambers that you can't go down, I am so angry lol

Does the Free Explore option work for anyone else? It just gets stuck on "Connecting to the Matterport space" for me, chrome inspector says it has an error with "This referrer is not allowed to use this X-Matterport-Application-Key", too bad.

E: ah was able to mess about with chrome and get it to work, seems it's the same as the guided tour though, ah well.

This is fantastic content!

This is so cool. They should definitely make more 3D tours like these

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Although way before the consul’s time the tomb had long been ransacked multiple times.

I was doing the free tour and was wondering where the burial chamber was. Turned out the chamber was so badly damaged and defaced it looked like a random messy construction site.

What impressed me the most is that the hieroglyphics are all emboss rather than deboss, meaning instead of just carving into the wall, all the negative space is carved away... Wow

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I guess for anyone not living in the area it would be a peice of history to forever preserve but I could see locals just trying to make ends meet and you know you could makes a fortune off some tombs

This is really awesome!!! My 5 year old son said the same! We were just walking around that tomb for 10 minutes straight and loved every second of it. Thanks for the content.

This right here is the future of VR. VR tourism will be a billion dollar industry for „environmental friendly“ visits to historic places, without destroying anything (as visitors tend to do). When the cost of access gets low enough, we‘re gonna have thousands of real world virtual experiences, and I‘m looking forward to that very much.

I just read Tutankamen's Trumpet, and I had no idea how much I loved Ancient Egypt.

I tried finding a book on Ramses II and I can't find anything. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd love to find something.

Do you know a book on Ramses II? I have recently been enamored by ancient Egypt, and I want to dive in.

Peter Brand’s Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh is coming out next month and will be the best overview of the reign of Ramesses II.

In the meantime, Kitchen’s classic Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt is well worth a read. Some of his conclusions are questionable, particularly those centering on the Exodus and other biblical matters, but there’s no Egyptologist alive who’s more familiar with the historical texts of the Ramesside period.

Thank you. That's exciting news.

Do you have more? Like, I've also struggled to find literature on the empire cycle.

Now that I've read on Tut, I'm reading on Akanaten.

After that, I want to read on Cleopatra and maybe the Ptolimaic era.

Have you read 12 Ceasars? It looks like a great, fluid picture of the Roman empire, but does it focus on those dictators or does it look at the culture and politics as a whole?