Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- 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 34: Thutmes III
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- 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 36: Maiherperi
- 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 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 46: Yuya and Thuyu
- 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 57: Horemheb
- KV 58: Unknown
- KV 59: Unknown
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 60: Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- KV 61: Unknown
Ownership
- Amenhetep II
- Amenhetep III
- Ay
- Merenptah
- Rameses II
- Rameses III
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Sety I
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Thutmes III
- Tutankhamen
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Amenmeses
- Bay
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Horemheb
- Maiherperi
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Rameses X
- Rameses XI
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Son of Rameses III
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes I
- Thutmes IV
- Tia'a
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen cache
- Unknown
- Userhat
- Yuya and Thuyu
Funerary Compositions
From the end of Dynasty 5 onward, religious texts were inscribed in the burial chambers of royal tombs.