KV57

Tomb KV57 is the royal tomb of Horemheb, the last pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty and is located in the , . The tomb was located by Edward Ayrton in February 1908 for Theodore Davis.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Valley of the Kings and Tomb of Tutankhamun.

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The is an archaeological locality in the hills immediately behind the of . 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.

Tomb
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The , a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, is located in the . The tomb, also known by its tomb number KV62, consists of four chambers and an entrance staircase and corridor.

Tomb
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Tomb is the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses III. It is located in the main valley of the . The tomb was originally started by Setnakhte, but abandoned when it unintentionally broke into the earlier tomb of Amenmesse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El-Assasif and New Al Qarnh City.

Village
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is a necropolis near on the West Bank at , . It is located in the dry bay that leads up to and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3 km east of KV57.

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is a city in . It had a population of 284,952 in 2023, with an area of 43.0 km2 and is the capital of the . Nicknamed the City of a Hundred Gates or the City of the Sun, formerly known as , It was one of the capitals of Ancient Egypt.

KV57

Latitude
25.74004° or 25° 44′ 24″ north
Longitude
32.60091° or 32° 36′ 3″ east
Open location code
7GQJPJR2+29
Open­Street­Map ID
way 813722274
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­tomb
Wiki­data ID
Q947481
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“KV57” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “KV57”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة ٥٧”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة 57”
  • Basque: “KV57”
  • Catalan: “KV57”
  • Dutch: “Graf DK 57”
  • Dutch: “KV57”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقبره 57”
  • Finnish: “KV57”
  • French: “KV57”
  • German: “KV57”
  • Hungarian: “Királyok völgye 57”
  • Hungarian: “KV57”
  • Italian: “KV57”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “KV57”
  • Norwegian: “KV57”
  • Portuguese: “KV57”
  • Russian: “KV57”
  • Spanish: “KV57”
  • Swedish: “KV57”
  • Turkish: “Horemheb’in mezarı”
  • Turkish: “Horemheb’in Mezarı”
  • Turkish: “KV57”
  • Urdu: “مقبرہ 57”
  • Vietnamese: “KV57”

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