KV 10 tomb entrance with modern revetments and flood protection barrier.
Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 06: Rameses IX
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 56: Unknown
- KV 03: Son of Rameses III
- KV 05: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 07: Rameses II
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 32: Tia'a
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 48: Amenemipet
- KV 49: Unknown
- KV 58: Unknown
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 04: Rameses XI
- KV 09: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 21: Unknown
- KV 26: Unknown
- KV 27: Unknown
- KV 28: Unknown
- KV 29: Unknown
- KV 30: Unknown
- KV 31: Unknown
- 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 50: Unknown
- KV 51: Unknown
- KV 52: Unknown
- KV 53: Unknown
- KV 54: Tutankhamen cache
- KV 59: Unknown
- KV 60: Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- KV 61: Unknown
Ownership
- Amenmeses
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Merenptah
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses VII
- Rameses XI
- Siptah
- Unknown
- Amenhetep III
- Horemheb
- Sety I
- Sety II
- Son of Rameses III
- Thutmes III
- Amenhetep II
- Ay
- Bay
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Tia'a
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Userhat
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Maiherperi
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes IV
- Tutankhamen
- Tutankhamen cache
- Yuya and Thuyu
Decoration
Tomb entrances.
Tomb entrances and tourist shelter.
Tomb entrances and tourist shelter in the central part of the Valley of the Kings.
Tomb entrances and a modern tourist shelter.
Breakthrough from KV 11 to KV 10.
Cardon, Patrick D. Amenmesse: An Egyptian Royal Head of the Nineteenth Dynasty in the Metropolitan Museum. Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, 14 (1979): 5-14.
Appears in:
Dodson, Aidan M. Death after Death in the Valley of the Kings. In: Sara E. Orel (ed.), Death and Taxes in the Ancient Near East. Lewiston: Edwin MEllen Press, 1992. Pp. 53-59.
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Dodson, Aidan M. The Tomb of King Amenmesse: Some Observations. Discussions in Egyptology. Oxford. 2 (1985): 7-11.
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Ertman, Earl L. A First Report on the Preliminary Survey of Unexcavated KV10. KMT 4/2 (1993): 38-46.
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Habachi, Labib. King Amenmesses and Viziers Amenmose and Kha’emtore: Their Monuments and Place in History. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: Abteilung Kairo, 34 (1978): 57-67.
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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.
Lefebure, Eugène. Les hypogées royaux de Thèbes, seconde division: Notices des hypogées (=Mémoires publiés par les members de la mission archéologie française au Caire. Cairo. 3, 1). Paris, 1889. Pp. 81-86, pl. 55-57.
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Old rest house, KV 18, KV 17, KV 16, KV 55, KV 62, KV 9, KV 10 and KV 11.