Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 21: Unknown
- KV 26: Unknown
- KV 27: Unknown
- KV 28: Unknown
- KV 29: Unknown
- KV 30: Unknown
- KV 31: Unknown
- KV 32: Tia'a
- KV 33: Unknown
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 37: Unknown
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 46: Yuya and Thuyu
- KV 48: Amenemipet
- KV 49: Unknown
- KV 50: Unknown
- KV 51: Unknown
- KV 52: Unknown
- KV 53: Unknown
- KV 54: Tutankhamen cache
- KV 56: Unknown
- KV 58: Unknown
- KV 59: Unknown
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 60: Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- KV 61: Unknown
Ownership
- Merenptah
- Rameses II
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Rameses III
- Rameses XI
- Sety I
- Thutmes III
- Amenhetep II
- Ay
- Horemheb
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Son of Rameses III
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Unknown
- Bay
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Thutmes I
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen
- Userhat
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Maiherperi
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes IV
- Tia'a
- Tutankhamen cache
- Yuya and Thuyu
Funerary Compositions
From the end of Dynasty 5 onward, religious texts were inscribed in the burial chambers of royal tombs.
Historical Development of the Valley of the Kings
The reasons New Kingdom kings chose the East Valley of the Kings for their burials are unclear.
History of the Valley of the Kings: Third Intermediate Period to the Byzantine Period
At the end of the New Kingdom, Egypt entered a period of political and economic decline.
Weeks, Kent R. Measurements of KV Royal Tomb Components. In: Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 583-599.