KV20 (The Tomb of Tuthmosis I and Hatshepsut)

KV20 (The Tomb of Tuthmosis I and Hatshepsut): A generally undecorated tomb constructed by the pharaoh Hatshepsut in the Valley of the Kings at point instantly behind her telling temple at Deir el Bahri. It's thought that the utmost length of the tomb was to enable her body would then lie in underneath her temple - even so the curve in the tomb appearances how the tomb constructors came over unsuitable rock and then the tomb had to bend from its designated route.

As the sarcophagus chamber was absolved by Howard Carter in 1920, he discovered 2 sarcophagi - one consisting to Hatshepsut and one which consisted to her father Tuthmosis I, both discharge.

The only ornament of the tomb was in the burial chamber, 15 limestone blocks which were autographed with texts of the Amduat.

Hatshepsut was entombed in a quartzite sarcophagus, this was in reality her 2nd sarcophagus - on exalting herself king Hatshepsut adjudicated not to use her archetype sarcophagus which was brought her while she was allay queen. Her archetype sarcophagus was re-carved for the entombment of her father Tuthmosis I.

KV20, plan and entrance

Tuthmosis I was as well buried inside KV20 on the death of Hatshepsut, but not for farseeing - Tuthmosis III was to displace his mummy into KV38 and bury him in afresh sarcophagus.

Other materialss discovered in KV20:

A cornerstone deposit of Hatsheput was discovered at the entrance to the tomb which admitted fragments of funerary furniture (inscribed with the names of Ahmose-Nefertari, King Tuthmosis I, Queen Ahmose and Hatshepsut), potsherds, fragments of faience and baked bits of a statue -perhaps a guardian statue.

A shabti figure consisting to Hatshepsut in The Hague.

Related Posts:

- KV57, The Tomb Of Horemheb
- KV4 (Tomb of Ramesses XI)
- KV9 (Tomb of Ramesses V and Ramesses VI)
- KV10 (The tomb of Amenmesse)

KV10 (The tomb of Amenmesse)

KV10 (The tomb of Amenmesse), situated in the East Valley, was the burial lay of the nineteenth dynasty pharaoh Amenmesse and was 1st researched by Edward Ayrton in 1907. The tomb has been partly open as antiquity, and there are Arabic, Greek and modern dedications on the walls at the becharm to the tomb.

KV10 - cosmopolitan plan From the entrance "A" 3 corridors go down to the Hall of awaiting "B" which is without its common well shaft. The Hall of awaiting deludes to the Chariot Hall "C" a 4 pillared chamber demoing signs of considerable damage ascribable flooding, with just one of the pillars still comparatively integral. The Chariot hall has apart chamber "D" which was never finished up. The ceiling of this chamber was bottomed by the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses III in KV11.

Plan of KV10

The corridor ahead from the Chariot Hall has a domed ceiling (the last two corridors are not demoed on the attaching to plan as it was aspirated the early 1800s). The fifth and last corridor is bare but would have chaired to the burial chamber if accomplished. Instead the corridor assisted as the burial chamber.

The tomb was primitively adorned for Amenmesse, with raised relief on the header and jambs at the entrance. The difference of the decoration was in sunk relief, carrying as far as pillared Chariot Hall, the first 2 corridors being adorned with aspects from the Litany of Re while the 3rd corridor bore evidence of aspects from the Anduat. All of this medallion was subsequently effaced and substituted with motley plaster aspects for the royal lady Takhat and Baketwerel.

KV10 (The Entrance)

The decoration of the Hall of awaiting consisted of aspects of Takhat making oblations to a number of deities. This theme was duplicated in the Chariot hall, wherever Baketwerel was depicted making the oblations The Chariot Hall was as well decorated with scenes from the Book of the Dead.

As a consequence of flooding at assorted times over the centuries almost of the wall decoration has been demolished. Three mummies were discovered within the tomb, those of 2 women and a man. They've never been described. However, fragmentizes of canopic jars and depart of a red granite sarcophagus lid, both autographed with the name of Takhat, believably indicate that at least she was entombed here.

Related Posts:

- KV17, The Tomb Of Seti I
- KV57, The Tomb Of Horemheb
- KV4 (Tomb of Ramesses XI)
- KV9 (Tomb of Ramesses V and Ramesses VI)

KV9 (Tomb of Ramesses V and Ramesses VI)

KV9 the tomb of Ramesses V and Ramesses VI was acknowledged to the Romans as the tomb of Memnon, and to the initiates of the Napoleonic Expedition as La Tombe de la Metempsychose. The earlier departs of the tomb before E are autographed for Ramesses V, without any decipher of encroachment. A wooden box fragment from the tomb and a possible wooden coffin nog from Davis's work in the Valley are the only funerary aims of king Ramesses V recognized. Everything else found in KV9 was developed for Ramesses VI. Ramesses V appears not only to have started the tomb but to have been entombed here in a bivalent burial with Ramesses VI. The date of Ramesses V's entombment (the place unluckily not specified), in Year two of his heir, is commemorated on an ostracon.

Plan of KV 57

The departs cut during the rules of both kings perhaps deemed a single entirely. The corridors are larger in breadth and height than those of Ramesses IV, but are without the stair-and-ramp conformation found in KV2. The passage H is unequaled in having a horizontal roof aggregated with a aslant floor, since here the stonemasons, abbreviating from top to bottom, had to bead the level to avoid KV12. The burial chamber itself isn't wholly ceased, evident also in the deficiency of any subsidiary rooms (although these are dropped in all succeeding royal graves) except for the abridged denotation beyond the sarcophagus hall.

Though well preserved, the colorized sunk alleviations are stylistically inferior to those of the antecedent 19th Dynasty. The decoration differs from the programme applied since the tomb of Sethos I, revealing the last major developmental modification to occur in the royal valley. A heavy stress is based on astronomical texts and representations. The god Ra inclines greater prominence, in the outer corridors the Book of Gates and the Book of Caverns substitute the Litany of Ra, and astronomical caps are found in apiece passage. The 3rd corridor and well room are decorated in as is manner, with the accession of excerpts from the Books of the Heavens, as is the first pillared hall which retains, however, the motif of the Osiris enshrine. Yet yet here the added to determine of Ra is seen. Yet even here the expanded influence of Ra is seen, therein Osiris is identified with the sun god through the accession of a solar disk and pecs. In the lower passages and antechamber, the ceilings show the Books of the Heavens and various cryptanalytic texts. The enactment walls show divisions from the Amduat; and the antechamber walls conniptions of gods and the Book of the Dead. On the walls of the burial chamber the Book of the Earth falls out for the first time, and here the astronomical ceiling aggregates images of the Books of the Heavens with the outstretched diurnal and nocturnal anatomies of the goddess Nut.

KV9, Tomb of Ramesses V and Ramesses VI

Headway of the single 'sarcophagus cavity' in the burying chamber floor by Edwin Brock in 1985 brought out that the abuts had been bring down, perhaps to conciliate the base of a granite outer sarcophagus box - no trace of which was found. The bare inner, anthropoidal sarcophagus of green accumulate had been smashed to pieces in antiquity, the better known of the fragments being the large face mask of Ramesses VI today in the British Museum; the chapeau and faces of the box were gently incised and calico with anatomies and texts first discovered in the sarcophagus Siptah - the Book of the Earth. The king may as well have had an anthropoidal inmost sarcophagus of calcite, but the fragmentises exposed by Brock are uninscribed and perhaps instrusive.

No sarcophagi are cognised for Ramesses V; any devised had possibly been arrogated by his heir. Other finds brought to light by Brock admitted pottery, fragmentises of wood and calcite shabtis - and a coin of the Emperor of Rome Maximian.

A unequaled account of a thievery from the tomb of Ramesses VI is conserved in the tomb looting document (updated) called Papyrus Mayer B. On the effrontery that this robbery actuated the visit recorded inthe graffito marked by Champollion on the ceiling of the burial chamber, Cyril Aldred indicated that the theft occurred before Year nine of Ramesses IX.

The mummies of both Pharaoh Ramesses V and Pharaoh Ramesses VI were attained in the KV35 cache in 1898. The mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses V consisted the basis of a white-painted wooden coffin and that of Ramesses VI in a alternate coffin in the first place belonging to a archpriest of Menkheperre called Ra. A fragment of wooden coffin, embellished in a similar mode to the trough of Ramesses III, was constitute with the mummy of Ramesses VI, even so, and may good have constituted part of the original burial gear. The mummy itself had apparently been accompanied to at the same time as that of Sethos II, because the right forearm and hand of this king had unknowingly been absorbed in with Ramesses VI's own gravely besmirched body.

- KV17, The Tomb Of Seti I. - KV57, The Tomb Of Horemheb.
- KV 4 (Tomb of Ramesses XI).

KV4 (Tomb of Ramesses XI)

KV4 (Tomb of Ramesses XI) in Valley of the kings: Open as antiquity (though not now) and contains Demotic, Latin, Egyptian, Greek, Coptic and French and English graffito on the walls. Applied as a workshop on the twenty-first dynasty by Pinudjesm to strip the funerary gear from KV20 KV34 and VK38. when moving the mummies. Abidance and stable in the christian period. It was used as storage room by Carter and dining hall while he processed Tut-ankh-amun’s tomb.

Plan of KV4

Absolved in 1979 by John Romber and no evidence of flooding, there's a crack between the columns and roof – believably a result of the dessication of the limestone. An ancient amend was made to the entering, with many glows in place to abide the ceiling. There are big breaks in the upper walls of the corridor and the plaster has accrued.

KV4, The Tomb of Ramesses XI

Close royal tomb to be constructed in the valley of the kings. Differently, not so agitating. Corridor aided by by a steep coming down passage with a 2d and third corridor before the ritual well (unadorned and unfinished). Came after by a pillared hall and a incline to the bare burial chamber. The pillars inside the burial chamber are rectangular, not square and the ceiling is domed.

No roadblocks in the tomb, but many swivel holes for doors. Beam inside the burial chamber (14 x 10 foot) consecutive down besides the usual sarcophagus. Only medallions are on the door between the entrance and first corridor. The first corridor, plastered in yellow, has abstracts only (in red color, so no even out the “corrected” ones).

Pinudjem amended the tomb, and it was accepted he intended to be buried here. Intrusive particulars from his restoration and hiving up were ascertained. Points let in a blue faience vs with the Horus name of Tuthmosis and Ramesses II, gilded gesso from the coffin of Thuthmosis III, funerary statues of Tuthmosis III, breaks up of the coffin of Hatshepsut, and shabtis os Ramesses IV.

Intrusive burials, also, evidenced by the remains of a twenty-second dynasty coffin and bones of 3 bodies. They were ascertained in the beam of the burial chamber. Copts as well occupied the tomb.

- KV17, The Tomb Of Seti I.
- KV57, The Tomb Of Horemheb.

KV57, The Tomb Of Horemheb

KV57, The Tomb Of Horemheb has been folded to visitors for many years while undergoing refurbishment, after abiding water flood damage, which is now discharged. He was the close king of Dynasty 18.

The king who had assisted as a royal scribe and cosmopolitan in the courtrooms of Egyptian Pharaohs (Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), Pharaoh Tutankhamun and Pharaoh Ay), constructed for himself a large tomb in the center of the Valley after getting king to put back his earlier tomb at Saqqarah. Unluckily his Theban tomb was bare at his death but is concerning in that it shows us a avid deal about the ways of medallion.

The entrance of KV57

The traditional stairses and descending enactments lead to a well-room (by shaft) adorned with aspects of the king prior to Anubis, Harsiesi and Isis, Hathor, the westerly goddess, and Osiris (by the left) and Horus, Osiris, Hathor, Anubis and Harsiesi (by the right). The walls are brilliantly colored on a grey blue backcloth.

Plan of KV57

The well-room chairs into a two-pillared anteroom, again with aspects of the king bidding to the assorted gods. A sunken stairs leads down by another coming corridor and staircase to a antechamber and it's here we start to see the changeover in style to the much bigger tombs of Dynasty 19.

The burial chamber is on a consecutive axis to the corridors and anterooms and is a big six-pillared sarcophagus antechamber with Horemheb’s red granite sarcophagus allay in place. The hall has the associate star-ceiling. The design boasts vary of earlier tombs with aslant from the first columns to the ‘crypt’ field down a flight of stairs and then a serial of 3 lower chambers (believably for depot) cut in arrears the burial chamber. The primary sarcophagus hall has the common four lateral annexes; the one at the western close has a beautiful picture of Osiris before a djed-pillar. The conniptions in the burial chamber are uncomplete and seem to have been broke up at assorted stages of work, a few areas displaying the gridirons, sketched-in anatomies and chastenings on the background of cataplasm. We also see the entry of painted engraved relief chipping at for the first time in a majestic Theban tomb. Another conception is the ‘Book of Gates’ (a regard to the ‘gates’ which apart the 12 hours of the night) which is described for the 1st time, but the final chipping at only accomplished in some localises. The uncomplete state of the burial chamber is instead a mystery since Horemheb dominated for twenty-eight years – ample time to accomplished a tomb.

Osiris in KV57

KV57 plan of chamber j and other

This tomb is often more concerning because of its bare condition. The anatomies depicted comprise the changeover from the late Amarna time period, which Horemheb tried to entirely wipe out, to the more conventional style of the Ramesside period, but more that they give us an brainstorm into the techniques and ways of design applied by the artists and artificers of Deir el-Medina on the New Kingdom.

The tomb of Horemheb (KV57) was formally afforded in April 2002 but seems to be all of the time closed. Tickets: You can get tickets for the Valley of the Kings which cost EGP eighty for three tombs and can be frequented the gate. Photography indoor the tombs is purely forbidden and can find heavy mulcts. There is a trifle train – the taftaf – that bleeds from the autobus park to the becharm to the monument field and prices cost EGP 2.

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KV17, The Tomb Of Seti I
KV1, The tomb of Ramesses VII
KV2, The tomb of Ramesses IV

KV17, The Tomb Of Seti I

Inward 1821 vast crews in London and Paris accompanied an exhibition of pictures copied from the tomb of Seti I. His tomb, which had been discovered 4 years before, received an enthusiastic response in Europe. So, exclude for the 1922 discovery of the tomb of king Tutankhamen and the 1995 discovery of KV5, no tomb in the Valley of the Kings was eternally in the public eyeball.

kv17 entrance

It isn't hard to understand why: the tomb was vast, totally decorated, beautifully conserved, and its discoverer, Giovanni Belzoni, published a becharming account of his act upon there. KV17 was the firstly tomb in the Valley of the Kings to be totally adorned; every wall and pillar from the entrance forward is covered with aspects from the Imydwat, the Litany of Ra, the Book of Gates, the Book of the Heavenly Cow, and the affording of the Mouth rite.

The work was exquisitely done, with complicate contingents in costumes and hairstyles, and the aspects are amid the best-preserved in the valley. Or instead, they were.Belzoni and additional visitors not just made water colour copies of the surrounds but took bosoms, adjuring wet paper against the relief carving, letting it dry, then pulling the third-dimensional copy off the walls. By nature, this besmirched the paint. Belzoni as well cleared the tomb becharm and absented natural barriers to water flooding. When a torrential pelting hit the valley briefly after the tomb was afforded, floodwaters decanted into the first a lot of chambers and did grievous harm. Some years later, a lot of pieces of wall medal were hacked out and taken to Europe—by Jean-François Champollion and Ippolito Rosellini. Many other visitors abided by suit. Clearing of the long passage that had been cut abstruse below the floor of the burial chamber, an functioning first tried a century ago and resumed in the 1950s by the descendants of a long-familiar tomb robber, created grievous structural troubles in the tomb that required adding up brickwork and steel to correct. A lot of projects have had to be undertaken in the last few decades to keep parts of the tomb from breaking. Recently, the tomb was folded to visitors so to make copious preservation studies, but these haven't been accomplished and no contrives have even been made to start the needed work. As a consequence, KV17 is likely to stay closed for the foreseeable future.

Corridor B A steep stairs leads down to the becharm of the tomb into corridor B. The surrounds of the corridor are adorned with the Litany of Ra, with a anatomy of the king abiding before Ra-Harakhty on the left wall, abided by by the “title page” of this text, shown here for the first time in a majestic tomb. This is accompanied by the text itself, along with 75 conjurations of the sun god. The text bears on on the right wall. The ceiling is adorned with birds whose heads are alternately marauders and snakes.

Part of kv17 plan

Chamber c. A big stairs was barge in the floor of stairwell C and large adjourns were cut in the walls above it. The Litany of Ra bears on, followed by the last division of the 3rd hour of the Imydwat. On the far side the adjourns, a figure of Isis kneelings below a accumbent Anubis jackal on the left wall. Nephthys is likewise posed on the right. Above the rear door is a figure of Ma’at and the cartouches of Seti I. In Corridor D, the 4th hour of the Imydwat appears on theright wall, the 5th hour on the left. Black ink abstracts mark the localisation of uncut recesses. A good deal on these walls has been gravely damaged, but when Belzoni first chaffered the tomb they were in most pristine circumstance.

Inside kv17

Chamber e, with a good shaft, 6.7 metres (22 feet) deep, is adorned at the top on the left face with a exclusive row of bods showing the king being chaired by Harsiese ahead Isis,bidding wine to Hathor, and abiding before Osiris and the Mistress of the West. In the aright half of the chamber, a inducted bod of Osiris is abided by by Anubis and Harsiese and additional aspects similar to those on the left. The rear wall of the chamber primitively was barred with rock and brick, then addressed with cataplasm and multicolor, evidently in an try to thwart tomb robbers. On the far side the well shaft, Chamber f is a fourpillared chamber whose surrounds are adorned with the fifth hour (on the left) and the 6th hour (on the right) of the Book of Gates. In the bluer register, the souls of the dead are united with their mummies, and these belong on by snakeshaped bed. In the upper register, all-powerful defenders keep the snake Apophis from doing damage to the sun god. At the left front recess of the chamber is a besmirched conniption that, a century agone, was wellpreserved and among the277 bottom centre the snake APOPHIS, from the book of the gates .most-admired aspects in the tomb, oftentimes copied and annotated upon. It displays a row of westerly Asiatics, Nubians, Libyans, and Egyptians, appareled in traditional costume and assuming traditional hairdos. The white background knowledge on these face walls counterpoints with the rear wall wherever, against a yellow background, Seti is conduced by Horus before a figure of Osiris who's inducted before Hathor. A small section of this scene has lately been cleaned as a test by curators and reveals how affectedthe pigments have been by dust and humidness over the last three millennia. Acting clockwise approximately pillar 1 (front left), we see the king abiding before Ptah and adopted by Harsiese, and so Anubis, so the Mistress of the West.

On pillar two (rear left), the king is adopted by Ra-Harakhty, Shu, Serqet, and Isis. Pillar 3 (front line right) shows the king before a god, then Hathor, Harsiese, and Anubis. Finally, pillar 4 (rear right) shows the king with Atum, Nephthys, Neith, and Ptah-Sokar. Side CHAMBER FA, the two-pillared chamber on the far side, has a lower floor than chamber F and was adorned just with figures and texts adumbrated in black ink. It isn't absolved why these walls weren't painted like all other aspects in the tomb. Some have evoked that the chamber’s bare state, the jog in the tomb axis, and the possible action of blotting out the succeeding stairs aggregated to provide yet additional way of converting tomb robbers they had reached a dead end. The scenes are taken from the ninth, tenth, and 11 hours of the Imydwat. The accomplishment of the artist is telling: lines aredrawn with long and confident strokes.

Kv17

Annotation on the left surround the figures of those who have broke by submerging and therefore ask special assist to enter into the netherworld. On the columns the king is displayed with Nefertum, RaHarakhty, Ma’at, and Atum; and with Ma’at, Osiris, Hathor, and Sokar-Osiris. A decorated stairs leads belt down to corridors g and h. Its aspects are acquired from the affording of the Mouth rite and display priests executing the ceremonies. They are appareled in the leopard abrade costumes of Iwnmutef priests and stand earlier royal statues. Great attention was taken in the picture of the leopard skin and the leopard-head-shaped clasp. Note as well the unusual way the priest accommodates the paw of the leopard in his left. This is among the bestdrawn agencies of the affording of the Mouth ceremonial to be found in the Valley of the Kings, but a lot was demolished by 19th century visitors who chopped pieces aside for consignment to European collections. Chamber I, the chamber antecedent the burial chamber, was named the Hall of Beauties by Belzoni since of its exquisitely painted bods of the king and assorted deities. Unluckily, the bosoms made by 19th century visitors earnestly besmirched the paint and stained the walls. What one ascertains today is a bare apparition of what once had been a masterpiece. Even so, the quality of the relief chipping at can still be looked up to, especially contingents of faces and hieroglyphs. On the left side of the chamber, the king is displayed seven times, adopted by Hathor, abiding before Anubis, extending to Isis, abiding ahead Harsiese, bidding to Hathor, standing before Osiris, and with Ptah. The right side is similar, exclude at the far end, where the king stands before Nefertum.Seti’s Burial Chamber J has 2 parts, a front dispense with six columns and a rear dispense with a lowered floor on which the sarcophagus primitively sat beneath a spectacular vaulted cap. The pillars are besmirched: one of them is dropping; others were cut up and removed to museums in Europe. Originally, all of them showed the king with assorted gods, letting in Iwnmutef, Osiris, Khepri, Thoth, Harsiese, Ptah-Sokar, Geb, Anubis, Shu, Ra-Harakhty, and the souls of Pe and Nekhen. The latter three are coiffed along the chief tomb axis. The walls in the upper, pillared part arrest texts and scenes from the Book of Gates, the 2nd and 5th hours on the left side, the third on the right.unofficially surrounds of the lower. Domed depart of the chamber, flew figures of Isis and Nephthys kneeling. flanked by cartouches of Seti I. The Imydwat starts with the 1st hour on the left surround in both a long and an abridged version. The 2nd hour can be ascertained on the rear surround, the third on the right.The domed ceiling is among the most telling in the Valley of the Kings. It addresses with astronomic subjects, many of them becloud. A hippo and a crocodile near the midplane of the ceiling are configurations the Egyptians placed in the northerly sky. Face chambers off both the upper and lower departs of the burial chamber are beautified with the 4th hour of the Book of Gates. The 1st right chamber is the Book of the Heavenly Cow.

The left back chamber has 2 columns painted with builds of Osiris, and copious wall medal that admits the 7th by ninth hours of the Imydwat.In the lower depart of chamber J, a square cavity was entrenched the floor, and into its back wall quarriers cut a belittled doorway. It leads into a constrict, well-carved tunnel broadening at least 100 metres (325 feet) at a steep downwardly angle into the bedrock. When Belzoni entered the tomb, the tunnel was completely filled with compact detritus. It allay has been just partially dug up, so its elemental address is unknown. A few have carried the hope that burial chamber J Isn't actually the burial position of Seti I but a assumed chamber entailed to fool tomb robbers. The burrow, they claim, leads to the real burial localize deep inside the mountain, and is still filled up with treasure. This appears improbable. Most Egyptologists argue that the burrow was designated to join the burial of Seti I to well water, and was alike to what Seti I had acted in the Osireion at Abydos, wherever the burial of Osiris was symbolically conjoined to the aboriginal waters of conception.

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KV1, The tomb of Ramesses VII
KV2, The tomb of Ramesses IV

Ramesses XI (1098–1070)

The reign of Ramesses XI:

In all probability not really the king of 2 lands – Egypt was pretty broke up by this period. Almost envoys sent to Thebes by the pharaoh to stabilize affairs tended to take hold as rulers. The (Year of the Hyena) – shortage – on his rule.

Vicereine of Nubia, Panhesy, abutted north with Nubian flocks, to restore govern in Thebes – which may have been on the pharaoh behalf, or on his possess. Panhesy usurped the office of (Overseer of Granaries), which intensified into civil war in the 17-19th year of Ramessess rule. The high Priest of Amun was besieged at Medinet Habu.

Took hold after a detectable rise in power of the Priests of Thebes, believably not a combined Egypt to his ascending.

The last pharaoh of the Rameside line and the concluding ruler of Dynasty twenty, Rameses XI reigned over a seriously attenuated country. Tomb lootings were rife, a series of abject Niles caused famine, and civil war belched in Thebes.

The central capital of Rameses XI:

Rameses XI’s central capital was situated at Tanis, in the central Delta, and power at Thebes appears to have been assumed by the priests of the temple of Amon at Karnak. At last, Rameses XI baffled his already-weakened power (though he held his royal championships) at the High Priest of Amon, Herihor, reigned southern Egypt and Smendes, maybe his son, reigned northward.

KV4 is ascribed to Rameses XI, but the tomb was never completed and the pharaoh’s mummy has never been discovered.

Ramesses XI was the 10th and the concluding king of the 20th Dynasty also the New Kingdom. The ruled of this king was a time period of agitation. Ramesses was not a very gumptious or critical ruler. The vicereine of Nubia, Panehsi, broke down from Elephantine to Thebes to attempt to stop the agitation that was bobbing up from contention over the area that was between the high priest of Amon and other people.

At the like time there was a famine and was anticipated (the Year of the Hyena). Hrihor was departed in Thebes by Panehsi to ascendance the affairs on that point. He soon accepted the character of the high priest of Amon and finally got the vizier also. This was the case of the eventual fall of Panehsi. Panehsi rebelled and arrested Egypt's supremacy in Nubia.

Hrihor administrated the affairs of Egypt although Ramesses XI rested in privacy. Upon the death of Ramesses, Hrihor and Smendes carved up Egypt between themselves. Ramesses was technically Pharaoh of Egypt till his death, just Hrihor was the ruler of Upper Egypt for all hardheaded aims. Ramesses' death branded the close of the 20th Dynasty and the New Kingdom. His tomb is placed in the Valley of the Kings.

Ramesses XI Monuments signs:

Tomb of Ramesses XI (KV4) at The Valley of the kings;

- Afford since antiquity (though not now) and arrests Greek, Latin, Demotic, Egyptian, Coptic and French and English graffiti on the surrounds. Applied as a workshop on the twenty-first dynasty by Pinudjesm to strip the funerary gear from KV20, KV34 and VK38. when actuating the mummies.

- Abidance and stalls in the Christian period. It was applied as storage room by Carter and dining hall although he worked on the tomb of King Tut.

- No attest of water flooding, there's a break between the columns and roof - believably a result of the dehydration of the limestone. An ancient amend was made to the debut, with a lot of beams in situ to abide the ceiling. There are big breaks in the upper surrounds of the corridor and the plaster has accrued.

- Close royal tomb to be constructed in the valley of the kings. Differently, not so charging.

- Corridor followed by a absorb descending enactment with a 2nd and 3rd corridor before the ritual well (unadorned and unfinished). Abided by by a pillared hall and a incline to the unfinished burying chamber. The pillars inside the burial chamber are rectangular, not feather and the ceiling is domed.

- No roadblocks in the tomb, but a lot of pivot holes for doorways.

- Shaft inside the burial chamber [14 x 10 ft] consecutive down besides the common sarcophagus.

- Only medallions are on the doorway between the becharm and 1st corridor.

- The first corridor, besotted in yellow, has abstracts only (in red, so no flush the “adjusted” ones).

- Pinudjem amended the tomb, and it was accepted he intended to be entombed here. Intrusive details from his refurbishment and hiving up were discovered. Details admit a blue faience vessel with the Horus call of Tuthmosis and Ramesses II, begilded gesso from the coffin of Thuthmosis III, funerary statues of Tuthmosis III, breaks up of the coffin of Hatshepsut, and barbs of Ramesses IV.

- Intrusive buryings, also, evidenced by the rests of a twenty-second dynasty coffin and bones of 3 bodies. They were discovered in the shaft of the burying chamber. Copts as well absorbed the tomb.

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Ramesses IX (1126–1108)
Ramesses X (1108–1098)

Ramesses X (1108–1098)

The reign of Ramesses X:

Workers came about affect for lack of earningses during his rule.

Most nothing is acknowledged of Rameses X, who reigned for maybe 3 years, save for some brief acknowledgments in texts at Karnak. It's conceivable that KV18 was abbreviate for this swayer.

Ramesses X was the 9th king of the 20th Dynasty. On his rule the workers advanced strike for earningses not paid. There are few perfect memorials of Ramesses that have came through. He left hand a tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

Burial Position:

Rock-cut tomb at Thebes in The Valley of the Kings - tomb 18. Ramesses X mummy has never been discovered.

Ramesses X Monuments signs:

Ramesses X tomb (KV18) in The Valley of the Kings:

- In the south-west wadi

- Bare and only recently absolved. Brought down by Pococke in 1700s, just no funerary material has been ascertained and the foundation alluviations found by Carter weren't autographed. The MISR project absolved the tomb in 1998 and bears on work.

- An entrance and two corridors. It was open on antiquity before being fulfilled with mud and debris.

The frontage is very big, some 10cm wider than the former king. It's simple, with little gradient. A carved up staircase and an initial corridor. The rulers of ancient Egypt names is on the doorposts and breaks.

- First corridor was barred by the electric lighting facilities for the Valley, which were established in 1904. He had the walls glossed over and a level base constructed for the begetting equipment. He added up holding walls and roofing a few of which rest today. The corridor was primitively in full cut and adorned.

- He 2nd corridor was barred by a modern wall the has been bared away. There are approximate steps to the deserted workface. The ceiling has broke.

- Brief decoration remains. Owed to water flooding the becharm movie of the king kneel on either face of the sun disk is baffled. Most of the cataplasm and paint have dropped away. Only a small assign of the left wall remains, along with modern European grafitti dating back 1623—1905. Other badly besmirched scenes have left deciphers. No medal sin the 2nd corridor.

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Ramesses IX (1126–1108)

The reign of Ramesses IX:

Ramesses IX the king of the 20th Dynasty. Judicial documents record pursuance of tomb robbers accompanying a breakdown so at Thebes.

On his 18 year reign, Rameses IX brought in a number of successful tries to restore Egypt’s power and wealth. The texts of his time mention to travels in Asia and Nubia. He as well ordered copious constructing activity at Karnak (in Luxor) and Heliopolis.


It was on Rameses IX’s rule that tomb robbing in the Valley of the Kings got so embarrassingly basic that an review of the royal tombs was accomplished. The consequence of the investigating was that a amount of thieves were apprehended and tried (in renal years nine and sixteen) and the mummies of many royal mummies were acted from their vandalised tombs to TT 320, a belittled tomb in the Dayr al Bahri cirque. They rested there till they were discovered and fleeced by thieves at the close of the 19th century.

Rameses IX was entombed in KV6, placed in the centre of the Valley of the Kings.

His mummy was absented from the tomb in the Dynasty twenty-one reign of Pinedjem II and expanded the Dayr al Bahri hoard.

Ramesses IX was the 8th pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty. He's believed to have ruled for about 17 or more years. On his reign, there was a dirt in which the tombs in the Theban burial ground were being fleeced. There were as well campaigns by Libyan brigands. He had a son, Montuherkhopshef, who didn't live to follow Ramesses. His grave was discovered in the Valley of the Kings.

Burial Position:

Scandal of the grave robbers in Thebes on his reign. His grave is a rock cut grave in Thebes (in The Valley of the Kings - tomb 6).

Ramesses IX Monuments signs:

The tomb of Prince Menthuher-Khepshef:

* Prince Menthuher-Khepshef the son of Ramses IX

* This tomb discovered in 1817

* Primitively intended for Ramses VIII but absorbed by among the princes alternatively

* Very astray opening with bemock door, across 3.6 meter

* Amidst the most technically fantabulous in the Valley of the Kings

* KV6 Tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

* Among the last pharaohs of the twenty dynasty.

* Initial aspects of sunken alleviation get flat paintings

* Abused corridor

* The burial chamber of the tomb is well cognised for (Book of Night) in yellow on the dark backcloth

* the tomb sarcophagus is escaping

* Beginning tomb bumped with the valley.

* Bare tomb, though the artwork is concerning.

* Afford since antiquity and visited by a lot of ancient tourists – 46 of which left dedications in the tomb. It was researched by Henry Salt , and was absolved in 1888 through George Daressy

* Corridor with treads on either face to a true corridor with two extensions (one never accomplished), abided by by a 2nd and third corridor and antechamber. There's no ritual barb A four-pillard hall leads to a abruptly corridor and the burial room, which has no extensions.

* It's conceivable the curial chamber was entailed to be additional corridor, and only convinced when the king died. There's a two-tiered pit in the floor, just no sarcophagus.

* Headers have the criterion sun-disk-Isis-Nephthys. The art is alike to Ramesses VI while the corridors have the Litany or Re alternatively of the Book of Gates. The 1st corridors artwork were acted while hw as live, and the lesser prime work was acted afterward.

* Burial chamber has a appraised ceiling with Nut and enactments from the the Book of the Night and the Book of the Day.

* Ramesses IX mummy was discovered in the 1881 Dier-el-Bahri cache, in a coffin primitively prepared for Neskhons, married woman of Pinudjem II

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Ramesses VIII (1133–1126)

The reign of Ramesses VIII:

Rameses VIII reigned for less than a year. He's acted only once, in a advance of princes in the perfect memorial temple of King Ramesses III at Madinat Habu, where his anatomy was fall back with the royal uraeus and additional royal raiment.

Rameses VIII may have been a late son among the kings of twenty Dynasty, but there appears little opportunity that he's to be described as a son of Pharaoh Rameses III, as well known by the call Sethherkhepeshef Mery-Amen, who was entombed in the Valley of the Queens in (QV43).

No tomb is acknowledged for Rameses VIII; just some Egyptologists think that KV19, applied for the burial of Prince Mentuherkhepeshef, could have primitively been designated for him.

King Ramesses VIII was the 7th king of the 20th Dynasty and was believably Ramesses III's son. Ramesses VIII mummy has never been discovered and all that rests of his rule is a dedication at Medinet Habu and some plaques. His grave was discovered but was very humble.

Burial Position:

The Burial position is Unknown, but tour Egypt tells ‘found but humble’. The mummy of Ramesses VIII has never been determined.

Ramesses VIII Monuments signs:

The tomb of Ramesses VIII (KV1) at The Valley of the Kings:

* Afford since antiquity – leastways Romans Greek periods.

* Referred in the last nineteenth century, but no info about the acquitting earlier than 1906. It was as well excavated afterward 1952 by the Egyptian ancientnesses dept.

* Acted by Edwin Brock as 1984, and refurbishment by the SCA in 1994 (which covered some ancient graffiti with cataplasm to fill breaks, and so on) No base deposits were detected.

* First corridor has a lot of breaks, but the plaster appears integral.

* Much littler tomb than his predecessors, with just one corridor and a burial chamber, with an bare room beyond. The delicately quality of the alleviation indicate that a belittled tomb was designed, since it was empathised that Ramesses VII might not have many time to accomplished it.

* Decorations alike to KV9 (Ramesses VI), there are some fluctuations: Osiris is much boasted here.

* A few of the blue pigments have attenuate/fallen away, just the outer lintel was adorned with the sun disk and arrests a scarab, flanked through Isis and Nephthys.l On the left side of the corridor, the king bids Re-Horakhty-Atyn-Kkhepri, on the right side to Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Additional in are chapters of the Book of Caverns and Book of Gates.

* There's no well-room or anteroom – the corridor leads consecutive to the sarcophagus room. The sarcophagus is adorned with aspects of the Book of Aker (the doubled headed lion acting the horizon) Nut braces the ceiling of the room.

* A belittled unfinished chamber with a corner is beyond, with the header display the Braque of the sun with baboon of the (Book of Gates).

* Sarcophagus cut at once to the floor of the chamber and a rock covering was localized over the hole. It's shaped alike a cartouche and adorned with anatomies of Nephthys, Selkis and the 4 sons of Horus in green blusher.

* The tomb was cycled/recycled by Copts.

* Mummy hasn't yet been discovered. He perhaps one of the unknown bodies from the DB320 hoard.

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Ramesses VII (1133–1126)

The reign of Ramesses VII:

Nothing is acknowledged of this son of Rameses VI exclude that he reigned for 7 years of economic asperity.

King Ramesses VII is believably the son of Ramesses VI and was the 6th Pharaoh of the 20th Dynasty. He constructed a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but at that place no other monuments signs that he constructed. He did have a son that didn't live to follow him.

Burial Position:

Rock-cut tomb in Thebes (The Valley of the Kings tomb 1). King Rameses VII was buried in (KV1) but no mummy has been discovered that can be distinguished as his.

Ramesses VII Monuments signs:

His tomb in The Valley of the Kings:

- Afford for centuries, allots of Romans Greek and graffiti

- Bright paint colors are ascribable refurbishment.

- It's reopened around 1995

- Arrests an curious figure buried by cartouches.

- Is not visited a lot.

- Afterward style, horizontal grave

- Described with aspects from the (Book of Gates)

- Sky and configurations on ceiling, and calender of banquets

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Ramesses IV (1151-1145)

The reign of Ramesses IV:

Ramesses IV directed 8368 workmen (admitting 2000 soldiers) to wadi hammamet to beat stone for statues. Soldiers were to hold the workmen, not champion them. He doubled up the work forc at Deir el Medina in Luxor. He may have domiciled over the "Harem Conspiracy" courtyard

King Rameses IV, the son of King Rameses III, came up to the throne chair on a period while Egypt had come down on hard times. There is no certify that he assayed, or was capable, to bushel its wealth and outside authority. Texts of his rule speak of social agitation, rising crime, and economic decay.

Even so, Rameses IV did order copious work in various stone and turquoise quarries, and he constructed pluses to temples at and Thebes of Egypt , Heliopolis and Abydos raised a lot of statues at that place.

His possess memorial temple rested near Dayr al Madinah. His tomb, KV2, was entrenched the Valley of the Kings. Afterward, in Dynasty twenty-one, his body was acted with many other royal mummies to KV35 for keeping.

King Ramesses IV was the son of King Ramesses III. His rule endured no more than 6 years. He did endure the harem confederacy which was contrived to spoil his arrogates to the throne chair. He based a document in the grave of his father which is now called the Papyrus Harris I, that affords an complicate account of the rule of Ramesses III. Pharaoh Ramesses IV is believed to have been in his mid-forties when he got king. There are 2 stele that were discovered at Abydos by Mariette that exalt his piety and exceeding devotion to the deities. The quarrying of the rock is told to have convoluted over than 8000 people.

Ramesses IV did the high-priest Mont , as well as other adequate to officials and scribes to bring down the locate. There were 5000 soldiers that were most expected sent to haul the vast stones across the rough desert routes. He's as well known for the continuance of the Khonsu at Karnak, which was started by his father, Ramesses III.

A temple at Asasif, which is on the westerly bank of the River Nile at Thebes, was put up by Ramesses. Ramesses' grave was discovered in the Valley of the Kings and his mummy is at present in the Cairo Museum. The rests indicate that Ramesses was a belittled man who was bare, had a long nose and fine teeth.

Burial Position:

king Ramesses IV rock cut grave in Thebes (Valley of the Kings Tomb 2). His Body ascertained in the royal cache in tomb KV35 and isn't in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo Egypt.

Ramesses IV Monuments:

Almost Monuments of Ramesses IV in KV2 Tomb (Ther Valley of the Kings): there's a lot of the appeal of King Ramesses VI, and lower crowded. Besides pollyannaish colors, just poor carving, abundant Greek and Coptic graffito and ping granite sarcophagus

Big tomb, but very bare. Hived up the mummy in the grave of Amenophis II. The archetype plans, absorbed on papyrus papers, are in the Museum of Turin.

Dissimilar from almost royal tombs, as Ramesses IV carried the throne chair afterward his father’s assassination, in a period time economic decay.

- Was acknowledged early one, and applied as a kind of “hotel” by betimes explorers. It was besides a Coptic Christian abode and was visited often in antiquity. Heaps of Greek and Coptic graffito

- 2 sketched contrives of the toms are acknowledged, the most accomplished and famous are in the Turin papyri.

- Very fiddling slope from the first depart of the tomb to the rear. Becharm has split stairses on either face of a ramp, affording to a first, 2nd, and 3rd corridors. The concluding corridor directs to a small antechamber and so to the burial chamber. There are some belittled annexes off the burial chamber, but additional than that, no sidelong annexes in the grave. The corridors are vast – some 10ft astray and 15 feet high, much bigger than normal.

- The frontage has the kings enthronement scenes and the corridors bear the Litany of Re. The cap is vultures, falcons, and flew scarabs.

- 3rd corridor has scenes of the Book of Caverns with stars on the ceiling, which later gets domed.

- The belittled burial chamber is closely filled up with the sarcophagus – it is outstandingly large. The chamber is adorned with the 2nd, 3rd, and fourth hours of the Book fo Gates. The ceiling is adorned with two big paintings of Nut besides the constellations, and aspects from the book of the dark.

- No mainstays in the tomb. No aspects from the Amduat.

- Fiddling funerary gear found, although the sarcophagus was barged in and left ajar. Nine foundation alluviations

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Setnakht (1185—1070)

Setnakht (1185—1070)

The reign of Setnakht:

The rule of Setnakht is indisposed known, the primary sources being the Elephantine Stela. Papyrus and Harris Papyrus Harris delineates the time of Sethnakht’s access as a period of afflict and confusion. Without doubt he was amplifying, but Setnakht does arrogate to have “cleared out the usurper” to the throne chair and, on a lower than 3 yearlong reign, to have bushelled law and dictate to Egypt.

When he broke, he was buried in KV14, the tomb applied by Tausert, which Setnakht had blew up. Declining to acknowledge the premature 2 pharaohs, the first pharaoh of the twentieth Dynasty dated the starting of his rule to that of King Seti II. He believably usurped the throne chair of Tworse, Seti II's widow, and afterward queen-pharaoh. He was at an boosted age when he claimed the throne but cared to achieve peace and order in a abruptly period. His tomb wasn't discharged when he died then he was localised in that Tworse's.

His coffin was discovered in Amenophis II's tomb but the mummy hasn't been discovered. Setakht was the father of king Ramesses III and the conserve of Ramesses's mother, Tiyemerenese.

Burial Position:

His tomb: Rock cut tomb at Thebes (the Valley of the Kings (in Luxor) tomb 14). He entombed in a tomb primitively bug for Twosret in. Might have arrogated the tomb himself as his original tome, KV11, came through to KV10 and was deserted. Or, his son, Ramesses III, acquired the tomb for his father. Setnakht’s Coffin determined in 1898 in the royal hoard in KV35. His body could be that of the undid man in a wooden boart in this tomb.

Setnakht Monuments:

Primitively helf wife (Tausert), arrogated by Sethnakht, who reigns 1200-1085 B.C.E. Sethnakht master tomb is at present Ramesses III. 112 meter long. Male gods bear female names, displaying that the tomb was arrogated by Sethnakht. This burial chamber has a barrel-domed ceiling. A granite sarcophagus is smashed.

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KV2, The tomb of Ramesses IV

KV2 or The tomb of Ramesses IV Heqamaatre, is deposited in a big modern courtyard close the becharm to the Valley of the Kings and has been open as antiquity. Coptic graffiti evokes that it was reprocessed as a Christian church or abode on the fifth century AD. An ancient design of the tomb absorbed on papyrus is right away in the Turin Egyptian Museum and it's apparent of this that the original design was for a bigger tomb which was believably amended at the decease of the king. The consequences of this abbreviation were that there's no traditional pillared hall ahead the burial chamber.

Plan of KV2

The tomb's architecture is fairly distinctive of royal Ramesside style with a stairs and ramp coming to the main entrance portal site. On the outer header to the first corridor is the associate disc arresting a scarab and ram-headed god Amun, flanked from Isis and Nephthys, with a alike depiction on the southerly wall of the first lightly sloping corridor. On the antonym wall are texts of the ‘Litany of Ra’. The pharaoh’s names look between the first and 2nd corridors, as well as on the cap which is painted with flew scarabs and marauders.

KV2

The 2nd corridor brilliantly exemplifies many scenes with daemons or underworld spirits of the ‘Litany of Ra’ on it’s cream-coloured surrounds. The ceiling as well shows the equal text.

The names of the king and a winged disc look in the entrance to the 3rd corridor and the walls display, for the fist time, aspects (of the first and second part) from the ‘Book of Caverns’. There are 2 niches at the far closing of the surrounds. The star-painted ceiling of the 3rd corridor is domed and also exposes the king’s cartouches.

A lot of steeply aslant ramp leads to an antechamber "well-room" before the burying chamber. The outer header of the antechamber is adorned with flew uraei and a flew disc and the walls of the chamber describe passages of (the Book of the Dead) (on the left hand) and the ‘Negative Confession’ (on the right hand).

The sarcophagus chamber was believably originally designated to be a pillared hall which would have anteceded the real burial chamber. Since the plan was abridged, no pillars were abbreviate and a sarcophagus "pit" was buried into the floor. The monolithic red granite outer sarcophagus which was discovered in the tomb, was barged in antiquity, but has been bushelled and can be ascertained in the burial chamber. The surrounds walls of the burial chamber exemplify the first four partitions of the ‘Book of Gates’ and choices of texts from the (Amduat). The vaulted ceiling exposes astronomical aspects from the (Books of the Heavens) which puts back the further traditional texts of earliest tombs. On the southerly half, the sky-goddess Nut is abided by Shu, deity of the air and alight, with a broadcast of the decans at the side. Nut as well stretches concluded the northern face of the ceiling with other astronomics bods.

A additional corridor on the far side the burial chamber has the initial texts of the (Book of Caverns) on its surrounds walls, but this is artlessly painted. This chamber affords into three extensions. The surrounds walls in the rooms in the south and north have mummiform characterisations of the king, maybe illustrating his ushabtis, whilst the room at the close of the corridor show additional funerary objects (couch, bureaux and canopic jars).

The consistence of Ramesses IV was discovered among those royal mummies in tomb KV35.

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KV1, The tomb of Ramesses VII

KV1 or The tomb of Ramesses VII Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun can be ascertained at the becharm to the Valley of the Kings a bit way back of the road. Like a few of the other Ramesside tombs it has been afford since ancientness. The tomb experienced some refurbishment and cleanup by the SCA in 1994, and a new itinerary was assign in place.

Though KV1 is Ramesside in plan, and alike in decoration thereto of Ramesses VI, it is a much humbler tomb than those of the king’s late antecedents, belonging of just one corridor and a burying chamber.

Plan of KV1

The outer header was decorated with the traditional sundisc arresting the scarab and flanked by Isis and Nephthys beneath the pharaoh’s names. In the astray corridor, the fine caliber alleviation decoration is strange – in situ of the Litany of Ra there are 2 aspects. On the left-hand face, the king is ascertained before an altar bidding to the falcon-headed solar deity Ra-Horakhty-Atum-Khepri, and on the right ahead Ptah-Sokar-Osiris with a hymn to the deities of the Underworld.

KV1

Additional along, the initial scene and first class from the ‘Book of Gates’ (the barque of Ra being came through the Underworld) can be ascertained on the left, with the first aspects from the ‘Book of Caverns’ (the deities paying homage to the anxious sun-god) on the right. On either face the king is described as an Osiris, being distilled by the Iun-Mutef priest.

The cap of the corridor is decorated with marauders and the king’s cartouches.

The corridor leads consecutive into a sarcophagus hall without a well-room or anteroom. It's evoked that the tomb was designed in its abbreviated form since the king’s rule was belike to be abruptly. On the outer header is the common winged disc. The becharm wall exemplifies 2 goddesses; on the right a complex goddess Sekhmet-Bubastis-Wert-Hekau and on the left-hand, Wert-Hekau (Great of Magic) to each one cladding the door.

On the surrounds of the sarcophagus hall are aspects from the ‘Book of Aker’ (the double-headed lion which represents the horizon) and the (Book of the Earth). The northerly wall describes Osiris as (Chief of the Westerners). An astronomics ceiling boasts the goddess Nut debasing across the edens with the decans and configurations.

On the far side the burial chamber a belittled chamber with a corner. It’s outer walls display the king cladding the door on each face and offering to expressions of Osiris on the inner surrounds. The wall above the niche exemplifies the barque of the sun arresting baboons from the (Book of Gates) affirmed by djed-pillars on the faces of the niche.

The sarcophagus was cut direct into the floor of the tomb and over this core out was localised a monolithic stone addressing, decorated with the common engraved anatomies of Isis, Nephthys, Selkis and the 4 Sons of Horus. This is allay in situ, with an affording at its foot wherever the body of the pharaoh was absented. The mummy of Ramesses VII hasn't yet been discovered.

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The Valley of the Kings, Tombs List

The Valley of the Kings was the royal burial ground for 62 Pharaohs, and is placed on the west bank at Luxor. The only becharm to this position was a long narrow curving way. This was a secret localise, wherever sentries were laid at the entrance of the Valley, also as along the top of the hills, in the desires of admonishing tomb robbers, who had in the past despoiled all royal tombs, letting in the treasures of the Pyramids. Some larcenies were believably carefully planned, but other larcenies were gad of the moment, as when an earliest tomb was by chance discovered while abbreviating a new one and workmen capitalised of the opportunity. This may have befell when KV 46 was discovered during the abbreviating of KV 4 or KV 3 contiguous. The tombs in the Valley ambit from a simple mark (e.g. KV 54), to a tomb with over 121 corridors and chambers (KV 5).

The Valley of the Kings Tombs:

KV 1
Possessor: Ramesses VII
Dynasty: 20

KV 2
Possessor: Ramesses IV
Dynasty: 20

KV 3
Possessor: Constructed for a son of Ramesses III
Dynasty: 20

KV 4
Possessor: Ramesses XI
Dynasty: 20

KV 5
Possessor: Sons of Ramesses II
Dynasty: 19

KV 6
Possessor: Ramesses IX
Dynasty: 20

KV 7
Possessor: Ramesses II
Dynasty: 19

KV 8
Possessor: Merenptah
Dynasty: 19

KV 9
Possessor: Ramesses V/VI
Dynasty: 20

KV 10
Possessor: Amenmeses
Dynasty: 19

KV 11
Possessor: Ramesses III
Dynasty: 20

KV 12
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 13
Possessor: Bay
Dynasty: 19

KV 14
Possessor: Tausert / Setnakht
Dynasty: 19

KV 15
Possessor: Seti II
Dynasty: 19

KV 16
Possessor: Ramesses I
Dynasty: 19

KV 17
Possessor: Seti I
Dynasty: 19

KV 18
Possessor: Ramesses X
Dynasty: 20

KV 19
Possessor: Mentuherkhepshef
Dynasty: 20

KV 20
Possessor: Thutmoses I / Hatshepsut
Dynasty: 18

KV 21
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

WV 22
Possessor: Amenhotep III
Dynasty: 18

WV 23
Possessor: Ay
Dynasty: 18

WV 24
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

WV 25
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 26
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 27
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 28
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 29
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 30
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 31
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 32
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 33
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 34
Possessor: Tuthmosis III
Dynasty: 18

KV 35
Possessor: Amenhotep II
Dynasty: 18

KV 36
Possessor: Maiherperi
Dynasty: 18

KV 37
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 38
Possessor: Tuthmosis I
Dynasty: 18

KV 39
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 40
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 41
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 42
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 43
Possessor: Tuthmosis IV
Dynasty: 18

KV 44
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 45
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 46
Possessor: Yuya and Thuya
Dynasty: 18

KV 47
Possessor: Siptah
Dynasty: 19

KV 48
Possessor: Amenemopet
Dynasty: 18

KV 49
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 50
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 51
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 52
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 53
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 54
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 55
Possessor: Amarna Cache
Dynasty: 18

KV 56
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 57
Possessor: Horemheb
Dynasty: 18

KV 58
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 59
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 60
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 61
Possessor: Unnamed
Dynasty: 18

KV 62
Possessor: Tutankhamun
Dynasty: 18

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Where was Khufu Buried

We do no know in reality know if Khufu is entombed in the Pyramid of King Khufu or not. The Khufu Pyramid at Giza Egypt actually arrests two burial chambers. One lies directly below the construction, as is accustomed with other pyramids. The second burial chamber is placed at a height of about 138 feet (forty-two meters), and is attended by many belittled chambers and barbs that still haven't been in full explored. In the upper chamber investigators found a heavy, unfinished sarcophagus of pink granite that had never arrested anybody moral remains. Whether Khufu (who ruled from 2551-2528 BC - and as well known by his Greece name of Cheops) was buried in an even more secret spot, or whether he died in such that a way that his body was baffled, we don't know certainly.

It is thought that Khufu is entombed in the Pyramid of Khufu r the Giza pyramid, but it is'nt known for certain.

Agreeing to some scholars the Great Pyramid (near Cairo) was an astronomic notice place. For other scholars, the Great Pyramid was a position for religious ceremonials with forfeits. Some think that the Sphinx is ten thousand years old and the Great Pyramid was constructed at the like time and has nothing to do with the Egyptians.

- Evidence that Khufu entombed in the Pyramid of Khufu: First: Khufu’s father constructed a big pyramid also. Second: Khufu golden flatboat was buried at the four of the pyramid. Third: One hieroglyph with his name in a very backwoods depart of the pyramid.

- Evidence that Khufu was not buried in the Pyramid of Khufu: First: Traditionally, the sarcophagus is acquitted in. The unfinished one in the 'king's burial chamber' was constructed there and not acquitted. Second: If it was a tomb, there would have been hieroglyphics everyplace by the constructors and about the life and triumphs of Khufu alike all additional burial positions. There were not.

Proposal isn't likely:

He's entombed in the head of the Sphinx, the chambers in the pyramid were entailed as failsafe methods to protect their most confidant secrets (how they constructed the pyramids) aka the library of Egypt, alike why would you entomb it in the midst of nowhere with what a treasure map, no make a construction which will survive the essay of time.

Notes:

Egypt Pyramid Tour is a great chance to watch the only surviving 7 wonder of the ancient world. Come and discover the landmark of Egypt, the great Pyramids of Giza on Egypt Pyramid Tour. Building on 'the ground of Nile' for around 4500 years, The Pyramids of Giza are not to be escaped on Tour to Egypt.

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Although Ramses the great is thought to have reigned Egypt 1279-1213 BCE", he in reality ruled Egypt between around 650-610 BC. Ramses II is the Pharaoh Necho of the Bible (Tanaach). By the historical reconstruction now established on the carbon-dating of King Tut at 800 BCE not 1300 BCE, Queen Hatshepsut ("The sign of the Sheba of the South") circa 950 BC; and the completely obvious reference to Israel in 586 BCE from Merneptah (Merenptah) son of Pharaoh Ramses II that "Israel's Seed is amputate (altered); The Land (Retinu) demolished to the ground"; it's acquit the ramesside kings were 800 years afterward Moses.

The old thought that the Ramesses of Exodus 1:11 and Ramesses of Genesis 47:11, 2 incidents 430 years aside chronologically, were in some way contemporaries of Moses, dominated the idea of the editing. This is where an ancient city is commemorated in an edited text of a identical old text with the name of the city contemporary with the scribes copying the ancient text into afresh copy. This had to be done every coevals with the Bible's scrolls. Normally the names of cities didn't alteration much extra time but Pithom or Memphis did change more. Thence a redaction was clearly necessity or at least almost advisable in circa 500 BCE. It was as well cognised as Tahpanhes or Si-en Ptah, Noph, Moph, Migdol and the city of the ramessides. In fact King Ramses II and his sons probably reconstructed a lot of Memphis-Pithom (Memphit = Phit-mem = Pithom, see Budge "Heri P-Temai") with Israelite confinement around 600 BC. Jeremiah went and assured the Jews to return to Israel in his forty-fourth chapter.

The Jews did so construct both Pithom in 1500 BCE and Memphit-Phithom in 600 BCE when it was called the ramesside capital (ira miskenot). Unluckily, besides reading Exodus 1:11 "The Hebrews constructed the Pithom (Ramesseum)", 2 cities were acquired to have been built. It is true 2 cities were constructed by Jewish labour. However, they weren't two capital cities in two dissimilar sites in as is era. Instead, they were 2 cities built upon as is site in 2 dissimilar eras (1500 and 600 BC).

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