KV (Egypt)

KV is an acronym employed by Egyptologists to designate tombs located in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt.

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Deriving from the words "King's Valley", the system was established by John Gardiner Wilkinson in 1821. Each tomb in the Valley of the Kings has since been allocated a sequential 'KV number' to aid identification.

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The best-known examples are KV5 (the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II, the biggest in the Valley) and KV62 (the tomb of Tutankhamun: the last tomb to be discovered, with the highest KV number to date).

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Valley of the Kings: The Valley of the Kings, or Wadi el-Muluk (وادي الملوك) in Arabic, is a valley in Egypt where tombs were built for the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom, the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties. The official name for the site was 'The Great an...

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