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Burial customs in the Middle Kingdom reflect some of the political trends of that period. During the Eleventh Dynasty , tombs were cut into the mountains of Thebes surrounding the king's tomb or, in local cemeteries in Upper and Middle Egypt ; Thebes was the native city of the Eleventh Dynasty kings, and they preferred to be buried there.
The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb consists of four chambers and an entrance staircase and corridor.
The entry corridors (Corridors B–D) are heavily decorated with symbols of the Pharaoh, like those of Ma'at and a list of Set's royal names and epithets. [4] One of the back chambers is decorated with the Opening of the mouth ceremony, which shows the Egyptian belief that a magic religious ceremony would open the lungs and throat of the mummy, allowing them to breathe in the afterlife.
"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 ...
[1] [2] Akhenaten ("Beneficial for Aten") [3] was an Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned for seventeen years (1355-1338 B.C.E.) from his capital city of Akhetaten ("The Horizon of the Sun's Disc"), known today as Amarna. [4] The Royal Tomb was rediscovered in the 1880s; however, the exact year and who discovered it is up for debate. [5]
After a re-examination of the original 1920s discovery, experts now believe even more strongly that King Tut’s golden burial mask wasn’t originally intended for him at all and was likely ...
The discovery supports the hypothesis that Queen Meret-Neith was ancient Egypt’s first female pharaoh. ... at the queen’s burial in Abydos, according to an Oct. 9 news release. Other grave ...
Tomb WV22, also known as KV22, was the burial place of Amenhotep III, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the western arm of the Valley of the Kings.The tomb is unique in that it has two subsidiary burial chambers for the pharaoh's wives Tiye and Sitamen (who was also his daughter).