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 IV (1151-1145)
Ramesses VII (1133–1126)
Ramesses VIII (1133–1126)

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