KV26
Sign in to saveTomb KV26 is an ancient Egyptian tomb of the Eighteenth Dynasty located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It is located in a side valley leading to the tomb of Thutmose III (KV34). It was visited by the early Egyptologist James Burton in the 1820s or 1830s, and by Victor Loret in 1898. It was mapped in the 1980s by the Theban Mapping Project. The first documented excavation of the tomb was carried out in 2009 by the University of Basel's Kings' Valley Project. The tomb contained evidence of at least one burial and fragmented pottery and stone vessels of mid-Eighteenth Dynasty date but nothing is
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- KV26
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- Unknown
- Egyptian tomb.image
- KV26.jpg
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- Schematic of KV26
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- before 1835
- Egyptian tomb.excavated
- James Burton(1820s-30s)University of Basel (2009)
- Egyptian tomb.decoration
- Undecorated
- Egyptian tomb.layout
- Shaft and chamber; straight
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Egypt
- Area
- 20.05
- Location
- Valley of the Kings
- Image
- KV26.jpg
- Length
- 12.26
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- Commons category
- KV26
- director of archaeological fieldwork
- James Burton
- culture
- Ancient Egypt
- described at URL
- thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV24-27_0.pdf
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Encyclopedic overview
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Tomb KV26 is an ancient Egyptian tomb of the Eighteenth Dynasty located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It is located in a side valley leading to the tomb of Thutmose III (KV34). It was visited by the early Egyptologist James Burton in the 1820s or 1830s, and by Victor Loret in 1898. It was mapped in the 1980s by the Theban Mapping Project. The first documented excavation of the tomb was carried out in 2009 by the University of Basel's Kings' Valley Project. The tomb contained evidence of at least one burial and fragmented pottery and stone vessels of mid-Eighteenth Dynasty date but nothing is known about its occupant(s).
==Architecture== The layout consists of a vertical shaft, deep, which opens onto a corridor that leads to a small room. The entire tomb is short, at only long. The shaft and corridor are neatly cut but the chamber is unfinished. It has a lower ceiling that the rest of the tomb, at . Although the tomb had been flooded in the past, the limestone is in good condition and unaffected by moisture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KV26” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations