Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 46: Yuya and Thuyu
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 21: Unknown
- 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 38: Thutmes I
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- 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
Ownership
- Amenhetep II
- Thutmes III
- Tutankhamen
- Amenhetep III
- Ay
- Horemheb
- Maiherperi
- Merenptah
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Sety I
- Sons of Rameses II
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Thutmes IV
- Yuya and Thuyu
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Amenmeses
- Bay
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Rameses X
- Rameses XI
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Son of Rameses III
- Thutmes I
- Tia'a
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen cache
- Unknown
- Userhat
Funerary Compositions
From the end of Dynasty 5 onward, religious texts were inscribed in the burial chambers of royal tombs.
Funerary Equipment
The types of funerary equipment Egyptians put into their tombs had become standardized long before the New Kingdom.