KV26
Ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tomb KV26 is an ancient Egyptian tomb of the Eighteenth Dynasty located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It is located in a side valley leading to the tomb of Thutmose III (KV34). It was visited by the early Egyptologist James Burton in the 1820s or 1830s, and by Victor Loret in 1898. It was mapped in the 1980s by the Theban Mapping Project. The first documented excavation of the tomb was carried out in 2009 by the University of Basel's Kings' Valley Project. The tomb contained evidence of at least one burial and fragmented pottery and stone vessels of mid-Eighteenth Dynasty date but nothing is known about its occupant(s).
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KV26 | |
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Burial site of Unknown | |
Coordinates | 25°44′19.9″N 32°36′02.5″E |
Location | East Valley of the Kings |
Discovered | before 1835 |
Excavated by | James Burton(1820s-30s) University of Basel (2009) |
Decoration | Undecorated |
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