North Africa
Egypt
New Valley Governorate

WV23

Tomb WV23, also known as KV23, was the burial place of Ay, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the Western near modern-day .
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  • Type: Tomb
  • Description: ancient Egyptian tomb
  • Also known as: “KV23”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Valley of the Kings and WV24.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
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
Photo: R.F.Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tomb is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the western arm of the . It was reported by Robert Hay and John Wilkinson in the 1820s and visited by Howard Carter; however, it was not fully explored until Otto Schaden's excavations in 1991.

Tomb
Photo: R.F.Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tomb is an unfinished and undecorated tomb in the West Valley of the , Egypt. It is the beginning of a royal tomb, and is thought to be the start of Akhenaten's Theban tomb.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El-Assasif and Luxor.

Village
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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'. is situated 2½ km east of WV23.

Photo: Blalonde, Public domain.
is a city in . had a population of 284,952 in 2023, with an area of 43.0 km2 and is the capital of the . It is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Photo: Belmahdy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of is the central part of Luxor township, centred on the twin foci of the Temple of Luxor and the Temple of Karnak.

WV23

Latitude
25.74151° or 25° 44′ 29″ north
Longitude
32.59208° or 32° 35′ 32″ east
Open location code
7GQJPHRR+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 814144093
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­tomb
Wiki­data ID
Q2706226
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“WV23” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “WV23”
  • Arabic: “WV23”
  • Arabic: “WV٢٣”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة 23”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة ٢٣”
  • Basque: “WV23”
  • Catalan: “KV23”
  • Dutch: “Graf WV 23”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقبره 23”
  • Finnish: “KV23”
  • French: “KV23”
  • French: “WV23”
  • German: “WV23”
  • Hungarian: “Királyok völgye 23”
  • Hungarian: “KV23”
  • Hungarian: “WV23”
  • Italian: “KV23”
  • Portuguese: “KV 23”
  • Portuguese: “KV23”
  • Portuguese: “WV 23”
  • Portuguese: “WV23”
  • Russian: “WV23”
  • Spanish: “KV23”
  • Spanish: “WV23”
  • Swedish: “KV23”
  • Ukrainian: “WV23”
  • Vietnamese: “WV23”

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Highlights include KV65 and West Valley.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “WV23”. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.