KV12
Sign in to saveLocated in the Valley of the Kings, Tomb KV12 is an unusual tomb, used originally in the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and then again in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. It was probably used for multiple burials of royal family members, similarly to KV5.
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- KV12
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- Unknown personages
- Egyptian tomb.image
- KV9 & KV12a.jpg
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- KV9 and KV12 schematic
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- Open in antiquity
- Egyptian tomb.decoration
- Undecorated
- Egyptian tomb.layout
- Straight axis
- Egyptian tomb.prev
- KV11
- Egyptian tomb.next
- KV13
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hypogeum
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Luxor
- Area
- 253.83
- Elevation
- 181.29
- Location
- Valley of the Kings
- Image
- KV12 Schematic.jpg
- Length
- 92.33
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- Commons category
- KV12
- culture
- Ancient Egypt
- described at URL
- thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV12_1.pdf
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Located in the Valley of the Kings, Tomb KV12 is an unusual tomb, used originally in the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and then again in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. It was probably used for multiple burials of royal family members, similarly to KV5.
The builders of KV9 broke unintentionally into KV12 whilst excavating that tomb. James Burton, who visited the tomb in the 1820s or 1830s, recorded the presence of mummified remains.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KV12” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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