The Nobles Tombs of Upper Egypt in Aswan are located in a hard rock  hill covered by sand, at the west side of the Nile, theoretically fallowing the trajectory west of the sun in its way to the eternal resting land.

They can be easily accessed by felucca the local sail boats that are found in the region. The trip and the sight give a deep peaceful relaxing feeling probably reason why it was chosen as a perfect place of eternal resting.

After a steep climb in a long stairway made of stone steps with false doors at each side of the road near the end, finally arrives to a small road, which conduces to a tomb complex of aligned stone cut tombs made for the important and notorious officials and their families of Aswan area.

The impressing ascend to the mountain probably gave to the ceremonial event a feeling of great impact in the lives of the participants. 

Some of these tombs carved inside the rock of this mountain that is covered by sand are many tombs well preserved; they are side by side one after the other, attractively decorated with carved stone columns, paintings, altars of offering and many false door and windows close were the actual rectangular tombs were located.

Certainly that are not the tombs found at the” West Valley” Thebes; anyway they are of great quality with magnificent hieroglyphs describing their life deeds and paintings related to afterlife.

The whole place is a great complex with stairs and entrance doors guarded at each side of the door by imaginary high rank personages seating and posing as keepers of the entrance.

The external walls are also ornamented with carvings of excellent artistic touch denoting the daily live or symbolic events of these noble men.

There are tombs dedicated to the Overseers of the army and priesthood of Upper Egypt and other important people, as well their families.

Some families of numerous members made adjacent tombs constructions to the principal ancestor adding a number of contiguous tombs; it gives a feeling for moments as it was just family burial ceremonial complex by their own.

Most of these tombs are very old since the can be dated as far back to the “Old Egyptian Empire” and the “Middle” and “New”  empires periods until the Greco Roman advent.