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 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 32: Tia'a
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- 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 33: Unknown
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 37: Unknown
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- 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
Ownership
- Rameses III
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Merenptah
- Rameses II
- Rameses IV
- Rameses IX
- Rameses VII
- Sety I
- Siptah
- Thutmes III
- Unknown
- Amenhetep II
- Ay
- Horemheb
- Rameses XI
- Sety II
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Bay
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Son of Rameses III
- Thutmes I
- Tia'a
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen
- Userhat
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Maiherperi
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes IV
- Tutankhamen cache
- Yuya and Thuyu
Funerary Compositions
From the end of Dynasty 5 onward, religious texts were inscribed in the burial chambers of royal tombs.
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.
Tombs in Collision
The Valley of the Kings was used for over five hundred years and as more and more tombs were dug there the site became increasingly crowded.