Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 05: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 46: Yuya and Thuyu
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 21: Unknown
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 26: Unknown
- KV 27: Unknown
- KV 28: Unknown
- KV 29: Unknown
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 30: Unknown
- KV 31: Unknown
- KV 32: Tia'a
- KV 33: Unknown
- KV 37: Unknown
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 48: Amenemipet
- KV 49: Unknown
- KV 50: Unknown
- KV 51: Unknown
- KV 52: Unknown
- KV 53: Unknown
- KV 54: Tutankhamen cache
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 56: Unknown
- KV 58: Unknown
- KV 59: Unknown
- KV 60: Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- KV 61: Unknown
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
Period
Ownership
- Sons of Rameses II
- Amenhetep II
- Horemheb
- Maiherperi
- Rameses IX
- Rameses XI
- Son of Rameses III
- Thutmes III
- Thutmes IV
- Tutankhamen
- Yuya and Thuyu
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Ay
- Bay
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Merenptah
- Rameses I
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses IV
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Rameses X
- Sety I
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Tia'a
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen cache
- Unknown
- Userhat
Decoration
Bibby, Miriam. Eternity of Princes Revealed. Ancient Egypt: The History, People and Culture of the Nile Valley 1, 1 (2000): 8-13.
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Carter, Howard. Report on General Work Done in the Southern Inspectorate. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 4 (1903): 43 50. See esp. p. 45.
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Castel Ronda, Elisa. El Valle de los Reyes: El entorno de la KV 5. Revista de Arqueologia 175 (1995): 18-29.
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Clayton, Peter. The Tomb of Sons of Ramsses II Discovered? Minerva 6/4 (1995): 12-15.
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Cooke, Neil. Burton and KV5. Minerva 7/3 (1996):7-9.
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Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane. A propos de la ‘nouvelle’ tombe de la Vallée des Rois. Archéologia 314 (1995): 4-6.
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Eisenberg, Jerome M. The Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II: Its Origin or its Consequence? Minerva 6, 6 (1995): 25.
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Fischer, Marjorie M. The Sons of Ramesses II. (= Agyptens und Altes Testament: Studien zu Geschichte, Kultur und Religion Ägyptens und des Alten Testaments, 53). Two vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001.
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Funerary Equipment
The types of funerary equipment Egyptians put into their tombs had become standardized long before the New Kingdom.
Gribble, Don. Natural Ventilation, Harnessed by New Kingdom Egyptian Tomb Builders, May Explain the Changed Floor Levels in the Valley of the Kings Tomb KV5. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 24 (2009): 62-65.
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Ikram, Salima and Dennis Forbes. KV5: Retrospects and Prospects. KMT 7.1 (1996): 38-51.
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Lefebure, Eugène. Les hypogées royaux de Thèbes, seconde division: Notices des hypogées (=Mémoires publiés par les members de la mission archéologie française au Caire 3, 1). Paris, 1889. P. 15.
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Lehmann, Dirk. Ramses im Grabmal der Söhne. Geo (1999): 24-30.
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Lemonick, M.D. Secrets of the Lost Tomb. Time (29 May 1995): 48- 54.
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Micucci, Dana. Letter from Luxor. Art and Antiquities 21, 9 (1998): 105-108.