The Royal Cache, technically known as TT320 (previously referred to as DB320), is an Ancient Egyptian tomb located next to Deir el-Bahari, in the Theban Necropolis, opposite the modern city of Luxor.
It contains an extraordinary collection of mummified remains and funeral equipment of more than 50 kings, queens, and other royal family members of the New Kingdom, as it was used as a cache for royal mummies during the Twenty-first Dynasty.[1] The eleven pharaohs found there include 1 of the 9 pharaohs from the 17th dynasty, 5 of the 15 pharaohs from the 18th dynasty, 3 of the 8 pharaohs from the 19th dynasty, and 2 of the 10 pharaohs from the 20th dynasty. The tomb was originally used as last resting place of High Priest of Amun Pinedjem II, his wife Neskhons, and other close family members.
Its discovery by locals between 1860 and 1871, and by Egyptologists in 1881, caused a sensation. The mummies quickly became a highlight of the new Egyptian Museum (then in Giza). In 1969, the discovery was dramatized in The Night of Counting the Years, which became one of Egypt's most widely respected films. In 2021 the mummies were moved to a modern display area in the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, following the high-profile Pharaohs' Golden Parade.
^Bickerstaffe, Dylan (2006). "The Royal Cache Revisited" (PDF). JACF. 10: 9–25.
The RoyalCache, technically known as TT320 (previously referred to as DB320), is an Ancient Egyptian tomb located next to Deir el-Bahari, in the Theban...
tomb (KV7) in the Valley of the Kings; his body was later moved to the RoyalCache, where it was discovered by archaeologists in 1881. Ramesses' mummy is...
be a royalcache and reburial dating from the late eighteenth dynasty, prepared after the abandonment of Amarna and the dismantling of the royal necropolis...
(Modern: "Wadi el-Muluk") Valley of the Queens (Modern: "Biban el-Harim") RoyalCache Bab el-Gasus Deir el-Medina Workmen's Tombs Shrine to Meretseger & Ptah...
features typical for a royal burial, such as remains of an Amduat depicted on the walls. However, his remains were found in the RoyalCache of Mummies at Deir...
kinship of Ramesses III and an unknown man buried along with him in the royalcache at Deir el Bahari. Keita analysed the STR data from these studies using...
for Egyptian royalty until 600 BC. The mummy had been stolen from the RoyalCache in Deir el-Bahari by the Abu-Rassul family of grave robbers and sold...
buried in tomb KV2 in the Valley of the Kings. His mummy was found in the royalcache of Amenhotep II's tomb KV35 in 1898. His chief wife is Queen Duatentopet...
IX was found in the royalcache itself, and Ramesses XI was probably never buried at Thebes but rather in Lower Egypt, "the [royal] mummy is most likely...
finds of royal statues dating to his reign was made as recently as 1989 in the courtyard of Amenhotep 's colonnade of the Temple of Luxor. The cache of statues...
Ducommun, Janine A.; Elshazly, Hesham (April 15, 2009). "Kerma and the royalcache" – via Academia.edu. Kendall, T.K., 2002. Napatan Temples: a Case Study...
"Unknown Woman B", was included among other members of the royal family reburied in the RoyalCache. Pharaoh Ahmose had a memorial structure or cenotaph at...
Thutmose III before ultimately being relocated to the Deir el-Bahri royalcache during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. Theban Mapping Project:...
of Egyptian-controlled Syria and Palestine seen in the Amarna letters, a cache of diplomatic correspondence from the time of Akhenaten found at Akhenaten's...
in his coffin upon Belzoni's discovery of the tomb, but rather in the royalcache DB320 amongst 36 other mummies. His coffin (perhaps the inner or secondary...
pyramids Nubiology Merowe Dam Aethiopia Elshazly, Hesham. "Kerma and the royalcache". Reinisch, Leo (1879). Die Nuba-Sprache. Wien. p. 271.{{cite book}}:...
KV43 the Valley of the Kings but his body was later moved to the mummy cache in KV35, where it was discovered by Victor Loret in 1898. An examination...
Ramesses III's reign, when the food rations for the favoured and elite royal tomb-builders and artisans in the village of Set Maat her imenty Waset (now...
Royal titulary Consort Henutwati and Tawerettenru Father Ramesses IV Mother Duatentopet Died 1145 BC Burial KV9; Mummy found in the KV35 royalcache (Theban...
the discovery in the Valley of the Kings; it proved to contain a small cache of jewelry that featured the name of Seti II. A set of "earrings, finger-rings...
Hyksos. In the Deir el-Bahri cache, the Mummy of Seqenenre was discovered in 1881. Priests had interred his mummy in the cache, along with Ahmose I, Amenhotep...
stolen. Thutmose I's mummy was ultimately discovered in the Deir el-Bahri Cache above the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, revealed in 1881. He had been interred...
of those years. Thutmose III's mummy was discovered in the Deir el-Bahri Cache above the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut in 1881. He was interred along with...
involved in the relocation and reburial of royal mummies from the Valley of the Kings to the RoyalCache (TT320). Throughout his life, Butehamun earned...
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