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Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun Ramesses VII (also written Ramses and Rameses) was the sixth pharaoh of the 20th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from about 1136 to 1129 BC [ 1 ] and was the son of Ramesses VI .
Carved wall reliefs of Ramessess VII's KV1 tomb Though not documented, the tomb was cleared in the 1950s. Starting in 1983, funded by the Royal Ontario Museum , Edwin Brock thoroughly excavated the burial chamber floor, followed a decade later by an excavation of the tomb's entrance. [ 2 ]
Tomb KV7 was the tomb of Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"), an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Nineteenth Dynasty. It is located in the Valley of the Kings opposite the tomb of his sons, KV5 , and near to the tomb of his son and successor Merenptah , KV8 .
Tomb KV9 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings was originally constructed by Pharaoh Ramesses V. He was interred here, but his uncle, Ramesses VI , later reused the tomb as his own. The architectural layout is typical of the 20th Dynasty – the Ramesside period – and is much simpler than that of Ramesses III 's tomb ( KV11 ).
The tomb was likely used as a dwelling by Coptic monks, [3] and there are also depictions of Coptic saints and crosses on the tomb's walls. [ 6 ] Early European visitors to the area included Richard Pococke , who may have visited KV2 and designated it "Tomb B" in his Observations of Egypt , published in 1743.
Meritamen was a daughter of Ramesses and one of his wives, Nefertari.She appears as the fourth daughter in the list of daughters in Abu Simbel and had at least four brothers: Amun-her-khepeshef, Pareherwenemef, Meryre and Meryatum, as well as a sister named Henuttawy.
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.
Tomb KV11 is the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses III. It is located in the main valley of the Valley of the Kings. The tomb was originally started by Setnakhte, but abandoned when it unintentionally broke into the earlier tomb of Amenmesse . Setnakhte was buried in KV14. The tomb KV11 was later restarted and extended and on a different axis for ...