Tomb entrances.
Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 03: Son of Rameses III
- KV 05: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 06: Rameses IX
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 04: Rameses XI
- KV 07: Rameses II
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 48: Amenemipet
- KV 49: Unknown
- KV 56: Unknown
- KV 58: Unknown
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- 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 50: Unknown
- KV 51: Unknown
- KV 52: Unknown
- KV 53: Unknown
- KV 54: Tutankhamen cache
- KV 59: Unknown
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 60: Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- KV 61: Unknown
Ownership
- Horemheb
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses VII
- Sety I
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Bay
- Merenptah
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses XI
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Thutmes III
- Unknown
- Amenhetep II
- Ay
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Son of Rameses III
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Userhat
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Maiherperi
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes IV
- Tia'a
- Tutankhamen
- Tutankhamen cache
- Yuya and Thuyu
Valley of the Kings, panoramic view from cliffs above KV 09, looking southeast. Visible are entrances to KV 03, KV 07, KV 04, KV 05, KV 06, KV 55, KV 62, KV 18, KV 17, KV 16, KV 10, KV 11, KV 57, and toursit shelter.
Tomb entrances and tourist shelter in the central part of the Valley of the Kings.
Geography and Geology of the Valley
The Valley of the Kings actually consists of two valleys that run northeast from the slopes of a prominent ridge along a high plateau into the Western Desert.
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.