WV24
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Tomb WV24 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the western arm of the Valley of the Kings. It was reported by Robert Hay and John Wilkinson in the 1820s and visited by Howard Carter; however, it was not fully explored until Otto Schaden's excavations in 1991.
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- WV24
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- unknown
- Egyptian tomb.image
- WV24 Unknown.jpg
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- Schematic of WV24
- Egyptian tomb.location
- West Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- before 1832
- Egyptian tomb.excavated
- Otto Schaden (1991)
- Egyptian tomb.layout
- Shaft and chamber
- Egyptian tomb.prev
- WV23
- Egyptian tomb.next
- WV25
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Tomb WV24 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the western arm of the Valley of the Kings. It was reported by Robert Hay and John Wilkinson in the 1820s and visited by Howard Carter; however, it was not fully explored until Otto Schaden's excavations in 1991.
==Location, architecture, and contents== WV24 is located from the entrance of WV25 and, like this tomb, is unfinished. WV24 dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty and consists of a well-cut vertical shaft that opens, via a large doorway, to a single chamber. The room is roughly rectangular but is uneven at the eastern end and has a low bench cut along one side. The tomb was left unfinished, a theory supported by finds of a wooden mallet and fragments of chisels left by masons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WV24” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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