KV14
Tomb KV14 is a joint tomb, used originally by Tausert and then reused and extended by Setnakhte. It has been open since antiquity, but was not properly recorded until Hartwig Altenmüller excavated it from 1983 to 1987.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Valley of the Kings and KV13.
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.
KV13
Tomb
Photo: R.F.Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tomb KV13, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was cut and decorated for the burial of the noble Bay of the Nineteenth Dynasty. An ostraca published in the French Egyptological journal BIFAO in 2000 records that Chancellor Bay was executed by pharaoh Siptah.
KV47
Tomb
Photo: John D. Croft, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tomb KV47, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Siptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty. It was discovered on December 18, 1905 by Edward R.
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.
KV14
- Type: Tomb
- Description: ancient Egyptian tomb
- Categories: archaeological site, hypogeum, building, historic site, and burial
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
25.73915° or 25° 44′ 21″ northLongitude
32.5998° or 32° 35′ 59″ eastOpen location code
7GQJPHQX+MWOpenStreetMap ID
way 813832362OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=tombWikidata ID
Q684908
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“KV14” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “KV14”
- Arabic: “مقبرة ١٤”
- Arabic: “مقبرة 14”
- Basque: “KV14”
- Belarusian: “Магільня Таўсерт”
- Catalan: “KV14”
- Dutch: “Graf DK 14”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقبره 14”
- Finnish: “KV14”
- French: “KV14”
- German: “KV14”
- Hungarian: “Királyok völgye 14”
- Hungarian: “KV14”
- Italian: “KV14”
- Korean: “KV14”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “KV14”
- Norwegian: “KV14”
- Portuguese: “KV14”
- Russian: “KV14”
- Russian: “Гробница Таусерт”
- Slovenian: “KV14”
- Spanish: “KV14”
- Swedish: “KV14”
- Ukrainian: “KV14”
- Vietnamese: “KV14”
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