Tomb KV7 was the tomb of Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"), an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Nineteenth Dynasty.
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- KV7
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- Ramesses II
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- Entrance to the fourth corridor of KV7
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- Open in antiquity
- Egyptian tomb.excavated
- Henry SaltJean-François Champollion (1829)Carl Lepsius (1844–45)Theodore Davis and Harry Burton (1913–14)Howard Carter (1917–1921) (1991)
- Egyptian tomb.decoration
- Book of GatesBook of the Heavenly CowAmduatLitany of RaBook of the DeadOpening of the Mouth
- Egyptian tomb.layout
- Bent-axis
- Egyptian tomb.prev
- KV6
- Egyptian tomb.next
- KV8
- Egyptian tomb.image
- Flickr - archer10 (Dennis) - Egypt-4A-023.jpg
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Tomb KV7 was the tomb of Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"), an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Nineteenth Dynasty.
It is located in the Valley of the Kings opposite the tomb of his sons, KV5, and near to the tomb of his son and successor Merenptah, KV8.