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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 ...
[83] [84] Hatshepsut's temple complex included the valley temple, causeway, and mortuary temple. Her tomb was built into the massif of the same cliffs as the temple, beneath the dominating peak of El Qurn (489 m (1,604 ft) AMSL [11]) that caps her tomb, in a sense, like the pyramid capped the tomb of an Old Kingdom pharaoh. [85]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. Egyptian queen and pharaoh, fifth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1479/8–1458 BC) For the 13th dynasty princess, see Hatshepsut (king's daughter). Hatshepsut Statue of Hatshepsut on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Pharaoh Reign c. 1479 – 1458 BC Coregency Thutmose III ...
Catherine Roerig has proposed that tomb KV20, generally believed to have been commissioned by Hatshepsut, was the original tomb of Thutmose II in the Valley of the Kings. [19] If correct, this would be a major project on the part of Thutmose II, which required a construction period of several years and implies a long reign for this king.
Hawass also worked alongside Egyptologist Otto Schaden during the opening of Tomb KV63 in February 2006 – the first intact tomb to be found in the Valley of the Kings since 1922. [34] In June 2007, Hawass announced that he and a team of experts may have identified the mummy of Hatshepsut, [35] in KV60, a small tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
As the narrator points out, "The entrance to every king's tomb from Tut's dynasty involves an immediate turn to the left. The only other right hand turn is in the tomb of Hatshepsut, a female ...
The location of the tomb above the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari Gaston Maspero (sitting), Émile Brugsch (middle), and Mohammed Abd-er-Rasoul (holding the rope) photographed at the entrance to the tomb by Edward Livingston Wilson Photograph of some of the coffins and mummies found in DB320.
A roughly 3,900-year-old tomb of an Egyptian priestess named Idy was discovered full of burial goods. Located behind a stone wall within a famous tomb near the ancient city of Asyut, experts were ...