Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- 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 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 18: Rameses X
- 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 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
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
Ownership
- Horemheb
- Sety II
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Merenptah
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Rameses XI
- Sety I
- Siptah
- Thutmes III
- Unknown
- Amenhetep II
- Ay
- Bay
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Son of Rameses III
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Thutmes IV
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Userhat
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Maiherperi
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Sons of Rameses II
- Tia'a
- Tutankhamen
- Tutankhamen cache
- Yuya and Thuyu
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.
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.