KV29
Sign in to saveTomb KV29 is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in the Theban Necropolis of Egypt. It is located near the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty tombs of Tiaa (KV32), Merytre-Hatshepsut (KV42), and Thutmose III (KV34). The tomb was known since the 1830s and given the number KV29 in 1899 but no records of an earlier excavation exist. The entrance shaft was previously planned by the Theban Mapping Project in the 1990s. The tomb was first excavated by the University of Basel King's Valley Project in 2011. Excavation continued in 2016 but the rest of the tomb is filled with debris and its layout
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- KV29
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- Unknown
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- Before 1832
- Egyptian tomb.excavated
- University of Basel (2011, 2016)
- Egyptian tomb.layout
- Shaft and chamber
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Tomb KV29 is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in the Theban Necropolis of Egypt. It is located near the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty tombs of Tiaa (KV32), Merytre-Hatshepsut (KV42), and Thutmose III (KV34). The tomb was known since the 1830s and given the number KV29 in 1899 but no records of an earlier excavation exist. The entrance shaft was previously planned by the Theban Mapping Project in the 1990s. The tomb was first excavated by the University of Basel King's Valley Project in 2011. Excavation continued in 2016 but the rest of the tomb is filled with debris and its layout is unknown.
==Location and exploration== The tomb is located in a small side valley that leads towards the tomb of Thutmose III (KV34) and is close to other tombs of similar date, including the tomb of Thutmose IV's mother Tiaa (KV32) and KV42. Given its proximity to these tombs, it is thought to date to the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty. It has a simple layout consisting of a vertical shaft and a single chamber.
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