KV21
Sign in to saveTomb KV21 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was discovered in 1817 by Giovanni Belzoni and later re-excavated by Donald P. Ryan in 1989. It contains the mummies of two women, thought to be Eighteenth Dynasty queens. In 2010, a team headed by Zahi Hawass used DNA evidence to tentatively identify one mummy, KV21A, as the biological mother of the two fetuses preserved in the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- KV21
- Egyptian tomb.image
- KV21 Unknown.jpg
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- KV21 schematic
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- 9 October 1817
- Egyptian tomb.excavated
- Giovanni Belzoni (1817)James Burton (mapped, 1825)Donald P. Ryan (1989)
- Egyptian tomb.layout
- Straight axis
- Egyptian tomb.prev
- KV20
- Egyptian tomb.next
- WV22
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- two female mummies
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hypogeum
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Luxor
- Area
- 120.29
- Elevation
- 180.654
- Location
- Valley of the Kings
- Image
- KV21 Unknown.jpg
- Length
- 41.04
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- KV21
- director of archaeological fieldwork
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni
- culture
- Ancient Egypt
- described at URL
- thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV21_1.pdf
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Português
A tumba KV21 (acrônimo de "King's Valley #21"), no Vale dos Reis, contém múmias de duas mulheres, pensa-se que sejam rainhas da décima oitava dinastia. A tumba foi descoberta por Giovanni Belzoni em 1817. Ela possui uma pequena câmara baixa próxima à câmara do sarcófago, onde foram encontrados grandes jarros brancos (provavelmente contendo resíduos de embalsamento). James Burton, que mapeou a tumba em 1825 chamou-a de "a nova tumba limpa". Entretanto quando a tumba foi investigada em 1989 por Donald Ryan, as múmias estavam despedaçadas, os jarros foram quebrados e havia a inscrição "ME 1826" na parede, tudo isso feito por vândalos.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
On the map
2 mapped locations