Tomb KV1, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses VII of the Twentieth Dynasty. Although it has been open since antiquity, it was only properly investigated and cleared by Edwin Brock in 1984 and 1985. The single corridor tomb is located in Luxor's West Bank, and is small in comparison to other tombs of the Twentieth Dynasty.
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- KV1
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- Ramesses VII
- Egyptian tomb.image
- File:Ramesses VII’s KVI tomb in February 2019.jpg
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- KV1 sarcophagus and tomb reliefs
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- Open in antiquity
- Egyptian tomb.excavated
- Edwin Brock (1984–1985)
- Egyptian tomb.layout
- Straight
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- KV2
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Tomb KV1, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses VII of the Twentieth Dynasty. Although it has been open since antiquity, it was only properly investigated and cleared by Edwin Brock in 1984 and 1985. The single corridor tomb is located in Luxor's West Bank, and is small in comparison to other tombs of the Twentieth Dynasty.
==Tomb layout== thumb|left|Tomb Corridor B of KV1 Typical of tombs from this period, KV1 is laid out along a straight axis. The successors of Ramesses III constructed tombs that had followed this pattern and were all decorated in much the same manner as each other. It consists of four major parts: the entrance, a passageway, the burial chamber containing the sarcophagus, and a smaller room at the end.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KV1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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