KV19
Tomb KV19, located in a side branch of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended as the burial place of Prince Ramesses Sethherkhepshef, better known as Pharaoh Ramesses VIII, but was later used for the burial of Prince Mentuherkhepshef instead, the son of Ramesses IX, who predeceased his father.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: manna4u, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Valley of the Kings and KV27.
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.
KV27
Cemetery
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.
KV20
Tomb
Photo: JMCC1, CC BY-SA 2.5.
KV20 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was probably the first royal tomb to be constructed in the valley. KV20 was the original burial place of Thutmose I and later was adapted by his daughter Hatshepsut to accommodate her and her father.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El-Assasif and Luxor.
El-Assasif
Village
Photo: Merlin UK, 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.
KV19
- 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
32.60324° or 32° 36′ 12″ eastOpen location code
7GQJPJQ3+M7OpenStreetMap ID
way 813947192OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=tombWikidata ID
Q1719126
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“KV19” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “KV19”
- Arabic: “مقبرة ١٩”
- Arabic: “مقبرة 19”
- Basque: “KV19”
- Catalan: “KV19”
- Dutch: “Graf DK 19”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقبره 19”
- Finnish: “KV19”
- French: “KV 19”
- French: “KV19”
- German: “KV19”
- Hindi: “केवी19”
- Hungarian: “Királyok völgye 19”
- Hungarian: “KV19”
- Italian: “KV19”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “KV19”
- Norwegian: “KV19”
- Portuguese: “KV 19”
- Portuguese: “KV19”
- Russian: “KV19”
- Spanish: “KV19”
- Spanish: “Tumba de Mentuherjepeshef”
- Swedish: “KV19”
- Vietnamese: “KV19”
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Highlights include KV43 and KV21.
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