Global Information Lookup Global Information

Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings information


The majority of the 65 numbered tombs in the Valley of the Kings can be considered minor tombs, either because at present they have yielded little information or because the results of their investigation was only poorly recorded by their explorers, while some have received very little attention or were only cursorily noted. Most of these tombs are small, often only consisting of a single burial chamber accessed by means of a shaft or a staircase with a corridor or a series of corridors leading to the chamber, but some are larger, multiple chambered tombs. These minor tombs served various purposes, some were intended for burials of lesser royalty or for private burials, some contained animal burials and others apparently never received a primary burial. In many cases these tombs also served secondary functions and later intrusive material has been found related to these secondary activities. While some of these tombs have been open since antiquity, the majority were discovered in the 19th and early 20th centuries during the height of exploration in the valley.

and 27 Related for: Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings information

Request time (Page generated in 1.1278 seconds.)

Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings

Last Update:

The majority of the 65 numbered tombs in the Valley of the Kings can be considered minor tombs, either because at present they have yielded little information...

Word Count : 4587

Valley of the Kings

Last Update:

of a new chamber and the 2008 discovery of two further tomb entrances, the Valley of the Kings is known to contain 65 tombs and chambers, ranging in size...

Word Count : 7170

List of burials in the Valley of the Kings

Last Update:

List of burials in the Valley of the Queens Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings Theban Mapping Project It's impossible to know when any given tomb will...

Word Count : 867

Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun

Last Update:

The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by excavators led by the Egyptologist Howard Carter, more than 3,300 years after...

Word Count : 10327

The Younger Lady

Last Update:

The Younger Lady is the informal name given to an ancient Egyptian mummy discovered within tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings by archaeologist Victor...

Word Count : 2436

The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Last Update:

unsuspected knife attack. The family proceeds to Luxor, where Emerson will be excavating minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Since Emerson has annoyed...

Word Count : 2026

KV57

Last Update:

Tomb KV57 is the royal tomb of Horemheb, the last pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty and is located in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. The tomb was located...

Word Count : 2073

Tomb of the Virgin Mary

Last Update:

the Church of the Assumption (Latin: Ecclesia Assumptionis), is a Christian church built around an ancient Jewish rock-cut tomb in the Kidron Valley –...

Word Count : 2705

Gate deities of the underworld

Last Update:

tombs in the Valley of the Kings are decorated with the texts of the Book of Gates, which describes the twelve gates or pylons of the underworld: in spite...

Word Count : 1197

Tombs of the Sanhedrin

Last Update:

Tombs of the Sanhedrin (Hebrew: קברי הסנהדרין, Kivrei HaSanhedrin), also Tombs of the Judges, is an underground complex of 63 rock-cut tombs located in...

Word Count : 1763

Amelia Peabody series

Last Update:

Davis, the American entrepreneur who first hired Howard Carter to dig in the Valley of the Kings, and who himself appears in The Ape Who Guards the Balance...

Word Count : 2737

KV40

Last Update:

Tomb KV40 is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. Artifacts from the tomb attribute it to 18th Dynasty royal family members, though human remains...

Word Count : 479

Cavern deities of the underworld

Last Update:

feed on the souls of the wicked. Several funerary papyri – in addition to the wall decorations of some tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the southern...

Word Count : 502

Late Shang

Last Update:

graves, some of them ramped tombs with human sacrifices like elite tombs at Xibeigang. The site at Subutun features a four-ramped tomb, the only one found...

Word Count : 11944

Ramesses IX

Last Update:

unproven. Tomb KV19, which was one of the most beautifully decorated tombs in the royal valley, had been abandoned by Sethirkhepsef B when the latter assumed...

Word Count : 1519

Avantibai

Last Update:

palace towards the bottom of hill, there is a tomb of Rani, which is in very dilapidated condition. There are tombs of other people of Ramgarh dynasty...

Word Count : 1124

Ramesses VI

Last Update:

buried in tomb KV13 in the Valley of the Kings, originally built for Chancellor Bay, an important official of the late Nineteenth Dynasty. The tomb decoration...

Word Count : 8043

Tutankhamun

Last Update:

from subsequent tombs, and workers' houses were built over the tomb entrance. The concession rights for excavating the Valley of the Kings was held by Theodore...

Word Count : 11459

Alyattes

Last Update:

the Mermnad kings are uncertain and are based on a computation by J. B. Bury and Russell Meiggs (1975) who estimated c.687–c.652 BC for the reign of Gyges...

Word Count : 5296

Naqada III

Last Update:

part of a dynasty. In this period, those kings' names were inscribed in the form of serekhs on a variety of surfaces including pottery and tombs. The Protodynastic...

Word Count : 1193

Osireion

Last Update:

part of the Temple of Seti I's complex. It may have been built to resemble the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. It is located centrally behind the main...

Word Count : 1054

Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun

Last Update:

The exhibition reveals history from Carter's point of view as he entered the tomb in Valley of the Kings in November 1922. The entry section of the Exhibition...

Word Count : 3764

Books of Kings

Last Update:

The Book of Kings (Hebrew: סֵפֶר מְלָכִים, Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian...

Word Count : 9522

Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt

Last Update:

undertaken of ten royal tombs, four tombs of the Chantresses of the Estate of the Divine Adoratrix, and finally the tombs of the citizens of Thebes. Many of these...

Word Count : 2703

Amenhotep III

Last Update:

buried in tomb WV22 in the Western Valley of the Valley of the Kings outside of Thebes. The tomb is the largest in the West Valley of the Kings and includes...

Word Count : 5780

Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

Last Update:

el-Medina. Deir el-Medina housed the artisans and workers of the pharaohs tombs in the Valley of the Kings, from the 18th to 21st dynasties. Amenhotep...

Word Count : 2671

Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Last Update:

The Divine Right of Kings "The Divine Right of Kings" is attributed to Edgar Allan Poe, though not fully proven. It appeared in Graham's Magazine in October...

Word Count : 7530

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net