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 16: Rameses I
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 21: Unknown
- KV 24: 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 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 37: Unknown
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- 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
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Ay
- Bay
- Horemheb
- Merenptah
- Rameses I
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Rameses XI
- Sety I
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Thutmes III
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Unknown
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Amenhetep II
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Maiherperi
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Son of Rameses III
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes IV
- Tia'a
- Tutankhamen
- Tutankhamen cache
- Userhat
- Yuya and Thuyu
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.
Old rest house, KV 18, KV 17, KV 16, KV 55, KV 62, KV 9, KV 10 and KV 11.