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Tomb KV27 is located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. This tomb was visited by John Wilkinson, but was not fully explored until the 1990s, by Donald P. Ryan of Pacific Lutheran University. The tomb consists of four rooms and is undecorated; nothing is known about its occupant.

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Egyptian tomb.name
KV27
Egyptian tomb.owner
Unknown
Egyptian tomb.image
KV27.jpg
Egyptian tomb.caption
Schematic of KV27
Egyptian tomb.location
East Valley of the Kings
Egyptian tomb.date
before 1832
Egyptian tomb.excavated
Donald P. Ryan (1993, 2006)
Egyptian tomb.layout
Shaft and chamber(s)
Egyptian tomb.prev
KV26
Egyptian tomb.next
KV28

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Tomb KV27 is located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. This tomb was visited by John Wilkinson, but was not fully explored until the 1990s, by Donald P. Ryan of Pacific Lutheran University. The tomb consists of four rooms and is undecorated; nothing is known about its occupant.

==Location, discovery and layout== KV27 is located between tombs KV21 and KV28 in a side wadi that branches off the main valley. The tomb has a simple layout, consisting of a shaft and four rooms. It is most similar to KV30 and appears to be an expanded version of a shaft tomb with a single room, or it may represent an architectural halfway between a single-roomed shaft tomb and those which have multiple rooms opening from one or more corridors. An unusual feature of the tomb is the plastered ramp (initially thought to be a sealed burial shaft) leading from the main chamber (B) to a side chamber (C). Pottery excavated from the tomb dates to the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty.

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