KV40
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| place | Valley of the Kings |
| Discovery date | 1899 |
| excavation | Victor Loret |
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KV40 ( Kings' Valley no. 40 ) denotes an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings in West Thebes . The grave owner is unknown and it is likely a non-royal grave. Due to its location, KV40 is dated to the time of the 18th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ). Since only the upper entrance shaft was accessible and the rest was filled with rubble, no further details about the grave were known for a long time.
It was discovered in 1899 by Victor Loret of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority Service des Antiquités . The results of his excavation work for the Antiquities Service were not published.
Since 2011, KV40 has been investigated by a research team from the University of Basel under the direction of Susanne Bickel . Another shaft discovered in January 2011 directly at the grave was initially given the provisional designation KV40b , on closer examination it turned out to be an independent grave and has since been referred to as grave KV64 .
In April 2014, the first details regarding the interior of KV40 became known. After the shaft was cleared of rubble, five underground chambers were uncovered in which the destroyed remains of at least 50 mummies, coffins and grave goods were found. By hieratic inscriptions more than 30 individuals were identified by name. It is therefore about princes and princesses who with the two kings Thutmose IV. And Amenophis III. were related.
See also
literature
- Nicholas Reeves , Richard H. Wilkinson : The Valley of the Kings. Mysterious realm of the dead of the pharaohs. Weltbild, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-0739-3 , p. 183.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Basel Kings' Valley Project: Preliminary Report on the Work Carried out During the Season 2012. (No longer available online.) In: aegyptologie.unibas.ch. University of Basel, February 26, 2013, archived from the original on April 29, 2014 ; accessed on April 30, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Basel Egyptologists identify the tomb of the royal children. In: unibas.ch. University of Basel, April 29, 2014, accessed November 10, 2016 .
Coordinates: 25 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ N , 32 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E