KV27
Tomb KV27 is located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. This tomb was visited by John Wilkinson, but was not fully explored until the 1990s, by Donald P.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Valley of the Kings and KV21.
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings is an Egyptian archaeological locality in the hills immediately behind the West Bank of Luxor. As such, it is one of the most remarkable archaeological destinations in the world - the burial place of most of the pharaohs of Egypt of the New Kingdom.
KV21
Tomb
Photo: R.F.Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tomb KV21 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was discovered in 1817 by Giovanni Belzoni and later re-excavated by Donald P.
KV28
Tomb
Tomb KV28 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt. It consists of a short shaft leading to a single rectangular chamber.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El-Assasif and Luxor.
El-Assasif
Village
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El-Assasif is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Upper Egypt. It is located in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'.
Luxor
Photo: Blalonde, Public domain.
Luxor is a city in southern Egypt. It had a population of 284,952 in 2023, with an area of 43.0 km2 and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. Nicknamed the City of a Hundred Gates or the City of the Sun, formerly known as Thebes, It was one of the capitals of Ancient Egypt.
East Bank
Photo: Belmahdy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The East Bank of Luxor is the central part of Luxor township, centred on the twin foci of the Temple of Luxor and the Temple of Karnak.
KV27
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: ancient Egyptian tomb
- Categories: tomb, hypogeum, archaeological site, historic site, and burial
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
25.73983° or 25° 44′ 23″ northLongitude
32.6031° or 32° 36′ 11″ eastOpen location code
7GQJPJQ3+W6OpenStreetMap ID
node 4887787977OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=grave_yardOpenStreetMap feature
historic=tombWikidata ID
Q1976462
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“KV27” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “KV27”
- Arabic: “مقبرة 27”
- Basque: “KV27”
- Catalan: “KV27”
- Dutch: “Graf DK 27”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقبره 27”
- Finnish: “KV27”
- French: “KV27 Inconnu”
- French: “KV27”
- German: “KV27”
- Hindi: “केवी27”
- Hungarian: “Királyok völgye 27”
- Hungarian: “KV27”
- Italian: “KV27”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “KV27”
- Norwegian: “KV27”
- Portuguese: “KV27”
- Russian: “KV27”
- Sinhala: “KV27”
- Spanish: “KV27”
- Vietnamese: “KV27”
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