KV35 – Tomb of Amenhotep II .. Part ( 19 )

This tomb lies westwards from the central area of the valley, the path to it leading past the tombs of Amenmesses ( KV10 ) and Ramses III ( KV11 ), on the left, and that of Haremhab ( KV57 ) on the right .

KV34 – Tomb of Tuthmosis III .. Part ( 18 )

The tomb of the great conqueror is situated in a lonely and remote revine at the south-east corner of the main valley . The path to it turns south after leaving the centre of the valley, and the tombs of Setnakht, Siptah, Tuthmosis I and Seti II are left on the right hand after we have taken the left-hand turning at the parting of the path .

KV23 ( WV23 ) – Tomb of Ay .. Part ( 17 )

It will be remembered that after the death of Akhenaten, and the short reigns of Smenkhkere and Tutankhamun, the throne was seized by a priest, " The Divine Father Ay ", who had no claim to royal descent, and was not even of high rank in the priesthood .

KV22 ( WV22 ) – Tomb of Amenhotep III .. Part ( 16 )

To reach this tomb we must leave the Valley of the Kings, and enter the Western Valley, which branches off from the road to the main valley about four hundred yards before the latter is reached .

KV20 – Tomb of Tuthmosis I & Hatshepsut .. Part ( 15 )

In mere extent this is one of the greatest tombs in the valley, being 700 feet in length, and reaching a vertical depth below the surface of about 320 feet .

KV18 – Tomb of Ramses X & KV19 – Tomb of Prince Mentu-hir-khopshef .. Part ( 14 )

KV18 – Tomb of Ramses X

This late Ramesside Pharaoh had a titulary as immense as he was himself unimportant, he was known as Ra-kheper-maet-setep-en-re and Ramses-Amen-hir-khopshef-mery-Amun .

KV17 – Tomb of Seti I .. Part ( 13 )

Judging from the available evidence, including that of the noble head of his mummy, which was found at El-Deir el-Bahari in 1881, Seti I was one of the best, as he was certainly one of the most dignified, of Egyptian Pharaohs,

KV16 – Tomb of Ramses I .. ( Part 12 )

We now return to what may be reckoned the central area of the valley, and passing the tombs of Ramses III and Amenmesses, we come to that of Ramses I, which, with No. 17 ( Seti I ) and No. 18 ( Ramses X ),

KV15 – Tomb of Seti II .. Part ( 11 )

Leaving No. 14, the tomb of Maiherperi ( No. 36 ) is passed, and a little beyond it we come to No. 15, the tomb of Queen Tausret's second husband Seti II .

KV14 – Tomb of Queen Tausert and Setnakht .. Part ( 10 )

As we have already seen, this tomb, which lies close to that of the chancellor Bay (*), was originally that of Queen Tausert . It makes the apex of a triangle of which the tomb of Siptah ( 47 ) and that of Bay ( 13 ) are the other two angles .

KV11 – Tomb of Ramses III .. Part ( 9 )

Setnakht and Ramses III had both had luck with their first tomb . Setnakht, as we have just seen, abandoned his on finding that he had pierced the wall of that of Amenmesses .