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    Tomb of Tutankhamun (redirect from KV62)
    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...
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    Dynasty, with several tombs buried under metres of debris. The tombs KV55, KV62, and KV63 are dug into the actual wadi bedrock rather than the debris, showing...
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    for over 3,000 years, it was excavated by Howard Carter in 1925 from tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings. It has been displayed in the Egyptian Museum...
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  • English Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team on 28 October 1925 in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th...
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    Filippo; Morelli, Gianfranco; Porcelli, Francesco (May 2019). "The third KV62 radar scan: Searching for hidden chambers adjacent to Tutankhamun's tomb"...
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    famous for being buried in a decorative tomb intended for someone else called KV62. 1332–1324 BC Kheperkheperure Ay II Was Grand Vizier to Tutankhamun and an...
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    Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE. The text concerns the...
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    The Mask of Tutankhamun from tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings. Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth...
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    Carter had, in fact, discovered Tutankhamun's tomb (subsequently designated KV62). The tomb was then secured, to be entered in the presence of an official...
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    was not considered significant in his own time, the 1922 discovery of his KV62 intact tomb by Howard Carter, made him relevant as a symbol of ancient Egypt...
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    to the as yet unopened Grand Egyptian Museum. The tomb of the young king (KV62) was uncovered almost untouched in the Valley of the Kings in West Thebes...
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    as Queen Nefertiti Tutankhamun Nebkheperure Kanakhttutmesut 1332–1323 BC KV62 Ankhesenamun Ay Kheperkheperure Kanakhttjehenkhau 1323–1319 BC KV23 Ankhesenamun...
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    Bloom or Tutankhamun as the Sun God) was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings in West Thebes. It depicts the King (Pharaoh)...
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  • the discovery of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, by Howard Carter in 1922. KV63 is located in the area between KV10 (Amenmesse) and KV62 (Tutankhamun), in...
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    designed for Ankhesenamun due to its proximity to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV62.[citation needed] Also found in the tomb were coffins (one with an imprint...
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    Portable shrine of Anubis, exposition in Paris, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62)...
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    search beginning in 1915, Carter discovered the actual tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) in November 1922. An ancient stroke of luck allowed the tomb to survive...
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    Tutankhamun (KV62) in 1922, KV15 was used by his assistants Alfred Lucas and Arthur Mace as a makeshift laboratory for the cleaning and restoration of KV62's artifacts...
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    by water – a fate not shared by KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun in the drier climate of Upper Egypt. In contrast to KV62, Psusennes I's tomb holds the distinction...
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    After a systematic search they discovered the actual tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) in November 1922. At the end of the century, the Theban Mapping Project...
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  • KV41 KV42 KV43 KV44 KV45 KV46 KV47 KV48 KV54 KV55 KV56 KV57 KV58 KV59 KV61 KV62 KV63 A map of the Valley of the Kings with locations of tombs marked   Tomb...
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    across the valley floor from KV7 (Ramesses II) and the near-contemporary tomb KV62 (Tutankhamun). Oriented almost due east, its entrance way consists of a set...
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    decoration is similar in content and colour to that of the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), with a few differences. On the eastern wall there is a depiction of a fishing...
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    relief, or statue dedicated to this young pharaoh's mother has been found. KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, contains mementos from his life and reign; none...
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    the tomb shortly thereafter. Carter's team opened the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) in 1922, launching the modern era of Egyptology. The famous Egyptologist...
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    display are grave goods from the tomb of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun (KV62) and a collection of 26 New Kingdom statues that were found buried in the...
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    Items originating from KV62 (tomb of Tutankhamun): fragmentary items discovered amongst the rubble fill in the corridor of KV62 and sections of the blockings...
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    Tutankhamun was interred in Ay's intended tomb in the East Valley of the Kings (KV62).[citation needed] Depending on the chronology followed, Ay served as pharaoh...
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  • resulted in a great deal of confusion. A number of items in Tutankhamun's tomb (KV62) were originally inscribed for Neferneferuaten. Among them Carter 261p(1)...
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  • D13S317, D2S1338, D16S539, CSF1PO KV62 Fetus 1 Egypt 3,340 D13S317, D7S820, D2S1338, D21S11, D16S539, D18S51, CSF1PO, FGA KV62 Fetus 2 Egypt 3,340 D13S317,...
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