Are situated in the main valley . They are uninscribed
and unidentified .
KV26
The
tomb was discovered on 1825, by James Burton . Virtually nothing is known of
this tomb, which may have been first explored by James Burton in the 1825s .
Its position was later noted by Victor Loret, in 1898, but no clearance of the
interior has ever been recorded . For the possibility that the tomb's occupants
were transferred eventually to KV42 .
KV27
The tomb was discovered between 1825s and 1928s, by
John Gardner Wilkinson . And it has been excavation by Donald Ryan on 1990, for
Pacific Lutheran University . It was examined, albeit superficially,
KV27 was apparently known to John Gardner Wilkinson
and may even be alluded to by Richard Pococke . It was examined, albeit
superficially, by Eugène Lefébure, who noted the presence of " mummy
remains " of uncertain date . More recently, in 1990, the tomb was entered
by Donald Ryan, who notes " evidence of at least seven different floodings
having taken place, which in some areas filled the sepulcher with rock and dirt
debris nearly to the ceiling " . A small sampling of pottery from room (
Bc ) tentatively suggests a mid 18th Dynasty date, perhaps during
the reign of Tuthmosis IV or Amenhotep III .
" This architecturally interesting monument
resembles the simple plan of tombs 28, 44 and 45, but that three additional
rooms seem to have been added to the central rectangular chamber " . By :
Donald Ryan .
KV27
seems architecturally to lie between those shaft tombs which open directly into
a single room and those tombs in which multiple rooms open from at least one
entrance corridor ( as in The Valley of The Queens tombs and KV12 ) . The only
tomb having a similar design is KV30, which combines the entrance shaft with a
single corridor . Preliminary cutting in the east wall of the southernmost chamber
may represent the beginnings of another room, or of a niche ( though the latter
feature is rare in tombs of this type ) .
KV28
The tomb was discovered between 1825s and 1935s, by
John Gardner Wilkinson, and the tomb has been excavated by Donald Ryan on 1990,
for Pacific Lutheran University .
" The tomb had been previously excavated by an unknown
party, so we were, in essence, picking through the leftovers " . By :
Donald Ryan .
KV28, with its shaft leading down to a single, small,
rectangular room, was first noted by Wilkinson in the 1930s, and described by Eugène
Lefébure in 1889 as almost completely clear except for a few mummy bones and
wrappings . These remains were still present when the tomb was re-examined by
Donald Ryan in 1990, and prove to come from at least two individuals . Other finds
included " fragments of a limestone canopic jar, many pieces of wooden
objects and a stray funerary cone from the Theban necropolis " .
Potsherds
from the clearance seem to suggest that the burials dated from around the reign
of Tuthmosis IV, whose tomb is close by, and that KV28 perhaps belonged to a
high official of that king .
KV29
The
tomb was discovered on 1825 by James Burton . Both James Burton and Wilkinson
note the position of KV29, but otherwise nothing is known of its plan or
contents .
KV30
The tomb was discovered on 1817 by Giovanni Battista
Belzoni, and the excavation was made for the Earl of Belmore .
KV30
is closely similar to KV27 in design . Nothing is known of its archaeology ;
the only recorded find is a potsherd, which Elizabeth Thomas dated to the 18th
Dynasty ; James Burton noted a quarry mark (?), in " red characters in
chamber of pit ", about which nothing more is known . It is uncertain
whether the mid-18th Dynasty quartz-sandstone anthropoid sarcophagus EA
39 in the British Museum, London, presented by Lord Belmore, came from here or
KV31 .
KV31
The tomb was discovered on October, 1817 by Giovanni
Battista Belzoni, and the excavation was made by Giovanni Battista Belzoni on
behalf of the Earl of Belmore .
" Their [ the Belmores' ] admiration of all that
they saw was music in Giovanni's ears . He warmed especially towards Lord
Belmore and even pointed out to him a couple of likely spots in the valley
where he might care to dig . The noble traveller found only two small
mummy-pits [ KV31 and KV32 ] … " . By : Stanley Mayes .
KV31
is now almost completely sanded up . No details are available about either its
form or any surviving contents – though presumably it or KV30 was the findspot
of the 18th Dynasty private anthropoid sarcophagus of quartz-sandstone
later presented by Lord Belmore to the British Museum .
KV32 - Tomb
of Tia'a
The tomb was discovered on 1898 by Victor Loret, and
the excavation was made by Loret for the Service des Antiquités . KV32
has not yet been fully cleared or excavated, but work is underway by a team
from the University of Basel's MISR Project : Mission Siptah-Ramses X
(2000-2001) . The Supreme Council of Antiquities has recently built a
concrete shelter around the entryway of the tomb .
" It was perhaps used as a burial-place of one of
[ Tuthmosis III's ] family, or perhaps for a vizier such as Rekhmara, whose
tomb-chapel is to be seen at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, but whose burial-pit is not
known " . By : Arthur Weigall .
The tomb may be the burial site of the Queen Tia'a,
the wife of Amenhotep II and the mother of Tuthmosis IV, because the mission of
the University recently discovered a canopic chest of Queen Tia'a, thus
allowing to identifying the owner of the tomb .
Very
little is known about this tomb, which is apparently unfinished . It was
described by Georg Steindorff in the 1902 Beadeker guide as " probably a
royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty, which has not yet been fully
explored " . Indeed, no formal clearance appears ever to have been carried
out, and no finds are known . According to Harry Burton, the tomb was
inadvertently cut into by those quarrying the tomb of Siptah ( KV47 ) – and any
burial within KV32 will doubtless have been investigated at that time .
KV33
The tomb was discovered on 1898 by Victor Loret, and
the excavation was made by Loret for the Service des Antiquités .
KV33 is again hardly known . Beadeker in 1902 described
it as " a small tomb with two empty rooms, reached by a flight of steps
" . It has apparently never been fully cleared .
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