KV31

KV31 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. Only the top of the shaft was known prior to excavation by the University of Basel Kings' Valley Project in 2010, and no earlier excavations are known, although it is suggested that the stone sarcophagus excavated by Giovanni Battista Belzoni in 1817 may have originated from this tomb. The tomb was found to be filled with mixed debris of pottery shards and linen fragments, as well as the remains of five mummified elite individuals dating to the Eighteenth Dynasty.

==Architecture== The tomb consists of a vertical shaft which leads to a chamber that has an additional two rooms leading from it. The majority of the tomb is cut from good quality limestone bedrock; the first chamber is partly cut from bedrock and partly from conglomerate.