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Valley of the Kings

© Copyright 2001, Jim Loy

Valley of the KingsThe Valley of the Kings, west of Thebes (Luxor), is where many of the kings of the 18th through 20th Dynasties were buried. Here is a rough map of the East Valley, the main part of the Valley of the Kings. The numbers are the KV numbers (such as KV1) which identify each of the tombs. The West Valley contains a few tombs, in particular KV22 through 25. To the southwest is the Valley of the Queens, the site of many tombs of noblemen and queens. Here are the tombs and their owners (information from the Theban Mapping Project and KV5 website):

  1. Ramses VII
  2. Ramses IV
  3. unknown (time of Ramses III)
  4. Ramses XI
  5. Sons of Ramses II
  6. Ramses IX
  7. Ramses II
  8. Merenptah
  9. Ramses V and VI
  10. Amenmeses
  11. Ramses III
  12. unknown
  13. Bay
  14. Tausert and Setnakht
  15. Sety II
  16. Ramses I
  17. Sety I
  18. Ramses X
  19. Mentuherkhepshef
  20. Hatshepsut
  21. two queens
  22. Amenhotep III (Western Valley)
  23. Ay (Western Valley)
  24. unknown (Western Valley)
  25. unknown (Western Valley)
  26. unknown
  27. unknown
  28. unknown
  29. unknown
  30. unknown
  31. unknown
  32. unknown
  33. unknown (time of Tuthmosis III)
  34. Tuthmosis III
  35. Amenhotep II
  36. Maiherperi
  37. unknown (time of Tuthmosis III)
  38. Tuthmosis I
  39. unknown
  40. unknown
  41. unknown
  42. unknown
  43. Thutmes IV
  44. Anen?
  45. Userhet
  46. Yuya and Thuya
  47. Siptah
  48. Amenemopet
  49. Maya?
  50. animals
  51. animals
  52. animals
  53. unknown
  54. unknown (time of Tutankhamun)
  55. Tiye
  56. unknown
  57. Horemheb
  58. unknown (time of Ay)
  59. unknown
  60. two women
  61. unknown
  62. Tutankhamun

See Theban Mapping Project (and KV5) for descriptions and floor plans of many of these tombs (including interactive animations of KV5). The following tombs are in the Valley of the Queens. They have QV numbers (like Nefertari's, which is QV66, recently restored). The list is deduced from Guide to the Valley of the Kings, by Alberto Siliotti:

30.  Nebiri
33.  Tanedjem
42.  Pa-Ra-her-unemef (son of Ramses III)
43.  Set-her-khopshf (son of Ramses III)
44.  Khaemwaset (son of Ramses III)
46.  Imhotep
47.  Ahmose
51.  Isis
52.  Tyti
53.  Ramses (son of Ramses III)
55.  Amun-her-Khepshef (son of Ramses III)
60.  Nebtawy
66.  Nefertari (queen of Ramses II)
68.  Merytamun
71.  Bentanta
72.  Neferhat and Baki
73.  Henut-tauy
74.  Duatentopet
75.  Henut-mi-re
80.  Tuya

Other tombs in the area are given TT numbers, at several places:

1.  Sennedjem (Deir el-Medina)
3.  Pashedu (Deir el-Medina)
31.  Khonsu (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
51.  Userhat (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
52.  Nakht (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
55.  Ramose (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
57.  Khaemhat (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
69.  Menna (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
71.  Senenmut (unused) (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
96.  Sennefer (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
100.  Rekhmire (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
320.  royal cache of Deir el-Bahri
343.  Benia (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)
353.  Senenmut (Deir el-Bahri)
359.  Inherkhau (Deir el-Medina)

There were two royal mummy caches. In the 21st Dynasty, priests tried to save mummies from grave robbers by hiding them in lesser-known tombs. In 1881, 40 mummies were found in tomb TT320 (DB320) near Deir el-Bahri. In 1898, 16 mummies were found in KV35, in the Valley of the Kings.

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