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The Tombs of the kings at Luxor, Egypt, is considered one of the most important Egyptian Pharaohs heritages and one the favorite places for touristic attraction from all over the world. These mountings dug single entry passage leading to the burial room that is beautifully painted with golden artifacts that are admired by everyone. Ancient Egyptians had carved these in surrounding limestone that are affected by water vapour due to human activities. Airflow characteristics in ventilated and air-conditioned spaces play an important role to attain comfort and hygiene conditions. This paper utilizes a 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model to assess the airflow characteristics in ventilated and air-conditioned archaeological tombs of Egyptian Kings in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor, Egypt. It is found that the optimum airside design system can be attained, if the airflow is directed to pass all the enclosure areas before the extraction and with careful selection of near wall velocities to avoid any wear or aberration of the tomb’s wall paintings. The airside design and internal obstacles are the focus of the present work. The free air supply and mechanically extracted ducted air play an important role in the main flow pattern and the creation of main recirculation zones. The internal obstacles can offend the airflow pattern by different ways, such as, by increasing the recirculation zones or by deflecting the main airflow pattern.