Also known as The tomb of the pharaoh Rameses II
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hypogeum
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Luxor
- Area
- 868.4
- Location
- Valley of the Kings
- Image
- Luksor pann.jpg
- Length
- 168.05
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- Commons category
- KV7
- occupant
- Ramesses II
- director of archaeological fieldwork
- Howard Carter
- culture
- Ancient Egypt
- described at URL
- thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV07_0.pdf
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Decoration and layout
- History
- References
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KV7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
3 mapped locations