KV10
Sign in to saveTomb KV10, located in the Valley of the Kings near the modern-day Egyptian city of Luxor, was cut and decorated for the burial of Pharaoh Amenmesse of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. However, there is no proof that he was actually buried here. Later, the decoration was replaced with scenes for Takhat and Baketwernel—two royal women dating to the late 20th Dynasty.
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- KV10
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- Amenmesse
- Egyptian tomb.image
- KV10 Amenmeses Schematic.jpg
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- KV10 schematic
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- Open in antiquity
- Egyptian tomb.layout
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hypogeum
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Luxor
- Area
- 350.27
- Location
- Valley of the Kings
- Image
- KV10 Amenmeses Schematic.jpg
- Length
- 105.36
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- Commons category
- KV10
- occupant
- Amenmesse
- director of archaeological fieldwork
- Otto Schaden
- culture
- Ancient Egypt
- described at URL
- thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV10_2.pdf
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Tomb KV10, located in the Valley of the Kings near the modern-day Egyptian city of Luxor, was cut and decorated for the burial of Pharaoh Amenmesse of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. However, there is no proof that he was actually buried here. Later, the decoration was replaced with scenes for Takhat and Baketwernel—two royal women dating to the late 20th Dynasty.
It was visited by Richard Pococke, Jean-François Champollion and Karl Richard Lepsius, and briefly studied by Edward R. Ayrton before being properly examined by a team from the University of Memphis in the United States under Otto Schaden in 1992.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KV10” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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