KV21

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KV21
Burial site of Unknown
Location East Valley of the Kings
Discovery Date 9 October 1817
Excavated by Giovanni Belzoni
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Tomb KV21 is located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It contains the mummies of two women, thought to be Eighteenth Dynasty queens.

It was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1817, Belzoni described how easily the hair came out of one of the mummies when he tugged at it.

The tomb has a small low chamber next to the burial chamber where large white washed jars (probably containg embalming waste) were located.

James Burton, who mapped it in 1825, called it a "clean new tomb".

However when the tomb was re investigated in 1989 by Donald Ryan, the mummies had been torn to pieces and the jars off the burial chamber were smashed with a large graffito left on one of the tombs walls proclaimed "ME 1826".

[edit] References

  • Reeves, N & Wilkinson, R.H. The Complete Valley of the Kings, 1996, Thames and Hudson, London.
  • Siliotti, A. Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples, 1996, A.A. Gaddis, Cairo.
  • Belzoni, Giovanni Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries in Egypt and Nubia;...1820, John Murray, London

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