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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 .
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 .
This tomb might be another mummy cache, and once possibly contained the burials of several Amarna Period royals – Tiy and Smenkhkare/Akhenaten. KV56: 19th Dynasty 1908 Unknown Known as the Gold Tomb, the original owner of this tomb is unknown. Items with names of Ramesses II, Seti II and Twosret were found. KV57: 18th Dynasty 1908 Horemheb [14]
Ramesses II later attempted unsuccessfully to alter this situation in his fifth regnal year by launching an attack on Kadesh in his Second Syrian campaign in 1274 BC; he was caught in history's first recorded military ambush, but thanks to the arrival of the Ne'arin (a force allied with Egypt), Ramesses was able to rally his troops and turn the ...
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 ]
Literature also served religious purposes. Beginning with the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom, works of funerary literature written on tomb walls, and later on coffins, and papyri placed within tombs, were designed to protect and nurture souls in their afterlife. [60] This included the use of magical spells, incantations, and lyrical hymns. [60]
The polychrome reliefs in her tomb are still intact. Other members of the royal family continued to be buried in the Valley of the Kings. Tomb KV5, the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II, is an example of this practice. [3] The tomb of Queen Satre (QV 38) was likely the first tomb prepared during this dynasty.
Ra traveling through the underworld in his barque, from the copy of the Book of Gates in the tomb of Ramses I . Part of a scene of the fourth hour of the Book of the Gates from KV, tomb of Rameses IV. The text was not named by the Egyptians. It was named by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero who called it 'Livre des Portes' (Book of Gates).