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The tomb's roughly cut descending corridor had partially re-filled with debris over the intervening years, leaving 1 metre (3.3 ft) of crawl space. Several bats had taken up residence on the badly damaged vaulted ceiling of the burial chamber. Pharaonic remains were limited to pottery, pieces of stone vessels, beads, and glass fragments. [20]
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The cliff tomb of Hatshepsut, also known as tomb Wadi A-1, [1] is the tomb quarried for her as the Great Royal Wife of Thutmose II, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. It is located in Wady Sikkat Taqet Zaid, to the west of the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. The tomb is cut into a slot in the vertical cliff face 70 metres (230 ft ...
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Egyptian: Ḏsr-ḏsrw meaning "Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. [ b ] Located opposite the city of Luxor , it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture.
Hatnofer's gold gilded funerary mask (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Ramose only held the title and non-specific epithet of zab ('the worthy') in his tomb. [10] The excavators of the tomb assumed, therefore, that Ramose was once only a simple farmer since "The Worthy" was "a polite but somewhat meaningless appellation invariably used for the respected dead."
KV20 was the original burial place of Thutmose I (who was later re-interred in KV38) and later was adapted by his daughter Hatshepsut to accommodate her and her father. The tomb was known to Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition in 1799 and had been visited by several explorers between 1799 and 1903.
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln: April 19 – May 3, 1865 United States: East and Midwest: 150,000 [3] State funeral of Victor Hugo: June 1, 1885 French Third Republic: Paris: 2,000,000–3,000,000 [4] Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons: November 13, 1887 United States: Chicago ~500,000 [5] Funeral ...
"WV24" is an unfinished tomb that may have been intended for a high ranking noble. It could have also been built as a storage chamber for overflow from the royal burial as seen with WV23 and WVA. WV25: 18th Dynasty 1817 Unknown This tomb may have been started as the Theban burial of Akhenaten, but it was never finished. KV65: 18th Dynasty 2018 ...