Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- KV 46: Yuya and Thuyu
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 21: Unknown
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 25: 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 37: Unknown
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 48: Amenemipet
- KV 49: Unknown
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- 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 6: Rameses IX
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV F: Unknown
Ownership
- Thutmes IV
- Amenhetep II
- Horemheb
- Thutmes III
- Amenhetep III
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Maiherperi
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses IV
- Sety II
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes I
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Tutankhamen
- Unknown
- Yuya and Thuyu
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Amenmeses
- Ay
- Bay
- Merenptah
- Rameses I
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Rameses X
- Rameses XI
- Sety I
- Siptah
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Son of Rameses III
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Tia'a
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen cache
- Userhat
Decorating the Tombs
The artists and workmen responsible for decorating the tombs used a variety of implements in wood, metal and stone in different stages of the process.
Foundation Deposits
While more commonly found in association with temple constructions, foundation deposits also have been unearthed at some royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Funerary Equipment
The types of funerary equipment Egyptians put into their tombs had become standardized long before the New Kingdom.