KV38

KV38 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was used for the reburial of Pharaoh Thutmose I of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and was where his body was removed to (from KV20) by Thutmose III before ultimately being relocated to the Royal Cache, located in Deir el-Bahri, during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.

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Egyptian tomb.name: KV38
Egyptian tomb.owner: Thutmose I
Egyptian tomb.image: KV38.jpg
Egyptian tomb.caption: Schematic for KV38
Egyptian tomb.location: East Valley of the Kings
Egyptian tomb.date: March 1899
Egyptian tomb.excavated: Victor Loret (1899)Howard Carter (1919)
Egyptian tomb.layout: Bent-axis
Egyptian tomb.prev: KV37
Egyptian tomb.next: KV39

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Area: 125.65
Elevation: 190.36
Image: KV38.jpg
Length: 18.39

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Commons category: KV38
time of discovery or invention: 1899-00-00
described at URL: thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV38_1.pdf

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Sjef Willockx has proposed that KV38 was original built by Hatshepsut as the tomb for a young Thutmose III in the case that the boy-king Thutmose III would not live to see adulthood. Later, after he reach adulthood, Willockx proposed that instead of extending the tomb to accommodate his adult burial, Thutmose III choose to carve a new tomb, KV34 for himself while the old tomb, KV38, was expanded to accommodate the reburial of his grandfather Thutmose I.