The status of
KV7 is bad, wide damage having been made by the seven or more distinct "flooding events" to which the tomb has been subjected over the hundreds and by moisture-induced lump of the underlying shale. The site
Ramses II chosen for his tomb was not a good one.Although the tomb reverts to the old bent-axis design, maybe to avoid an invasive bed od shale encountered in its excavation, the construction is not atavistic in plan, as can be seen from new factors such as the decreased slope of its passageways, the form of its first pillared hall with the added room to the side, the radically new design of the burying chamber. The cause for turning the burial chamber sideways - and at an angle - is anonymous, though the addition of the fourth set of pillars and the wide size of this chamber let a new emphasis to be placed on the crypt, which was new placed in the center of the room instead of at its end. The KV7 is maybe the biggest in the valley, the whole tomb cover more than c.820 m2 and the burial chamber only some c.181 m2.
KV7
When King Ramses II was 92 years old, in Year 67 of his rule, he was finally joined with his beloved Amon. His tomb (KV7) in the
Valley of the Kings at Luxor (position of the Egyptian Pharaohs tombs) was completed long before his death. Unluckily for us, very little was left that the plundering tomb robbers hadnt stole. Using the magnificent tomb of the comparatively minor Tutankhamon as a point of compare, we can think that it must have been perfectly splendid. Ramses mummy was transferred and hidden by the Valley priests at the start of the Third Intermediate Period, and was discovered in a cache at Deir el-Bahari at Luxor in 1881.
Tomb of Ramses II
By 1989, an old tomb that had been held unimportant by Howard Carter in 1902 was rediscovered. It was (KV5), now known to be the tomb of many of
the sons of king Ramses II. It contains over 110 corridors and chambers ground hundreds of feet into the hillside. It is one of the biggest tombs in all of Egypt, and is presently under excavation.
Daily thousands of tourists flow past the monuments and temples that once were either involved by the hustle and bustle of daily Ancient Egyptian activeness, or echoed the silent communicating between the Gods and humans. 3000 years have stolen over the desert sands. The huge stone monuments, vibrating empathetically with their celestial counterparts, have been covered and uncovered by those sands over the years. But late at nighttime, when the world sleep, and the nocturnal animals range, Sirius rises in the east. And the wind rustling the name of Ramses II.
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