Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
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- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 46: Yuya and Thuyu
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- 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 37: Unknown
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- 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 60: Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- KV 61: Unknown
Ownership
- Horemheb
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses VII
- Sety I
- Sety II
- Thutmes III
- Amenhetep II
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Bay
- Merenptah
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses XI
- Siptah
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Thutmes IV
- Unknown
- Ay
- Maiherperi
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Son of Rameses III
- Sons of Rameses II
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen
- Userhat
- Yuya and Thuyu
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Tia'a
- Tutankhamen cache
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.
Funerary Equipment
The types of funerary equipment Egyptians put into their tombs had become standardized long before the New Kingdom.
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.