The west bank of the Nile, in front of the modern city of Luxor, was the region of the dead. Its main monuments were royal funeral temples near the edge of the cultivation area. The royal tombs, especially in the Valley of the Kings, the tombs of the royal family in the valley of the queens, the village of Deir the medina in which the workers who prepared the royal tombs lived with their families; private dealers with the burials of the arisue lived in Luxor; especially during the Empire cemeteries will be known by the names of nodernos. The most important concentration of private tombs is in Sheikh Abd el-Gurna, west of the rameseum, there are other cemeteries in the Asasif Valley and on Khokha Hill, southeast of the temple of Deir in Dra Abu el-Naga, something else to the north, and in gurnet murai, to the east of the village of Deir el-Medina. Almost graves open to the public are in Sheikh Abd in Asasif.
Unlike the royal tombs, whose decoration is limited to religious themes, those of these aristocracy courtiers also included everyday scenes: In part, these were new versions of the traditional scenes already found; tabas of the Old Empire. However, as life had changed, new ones were incorporated and the methods of decorating tombs of the New Empire were perfected, the figures and the king, absent from the private tombs of the old. The tomb of the New Empire was a basic burial site for the whole family; he had to portray so many family members.
The wall decorations on the tombs of the 18th dynasty are more vivid and informative in terms of everyday life than those of the ramses period. The background colors are lighter and there are fewer scenes from the passage to the beyond. some tombs contain pictorial references to the administrative functions of the deceased in the service of the king; That is why there are scenes of foreign delegations offering tribute to the king, details of the royal jubilee celebrations, or ceremonies in which the king is seen offering the deceased the traditional gold beaded necklace.