North Africa
Egypt
New Valley Governorate

KV13

Tomb KV13, located in the in , 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.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Valley of the Kings and KV62 Tomb of Tutankhamen.

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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.

Cemetery
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The tomb of Tutankhamun, 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. is situated 180 metres northeast of KV13.

Tomb
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Tomb 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 in the Area

Nearby places include El-Assasif and Luxor.

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'.

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.

KV13

Latitude
25.73934° or 25° 44′ 22″ north
Longitude
32.59982° or 32° 35′ 59″ east
Open location code
7GQJPHQX+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 823159551
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­tomb
Wiki­data ID
Q1719116
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“KV13” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “KV13”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة ١٣”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة 13”
  • Basque: “KV13”
  • Catalan: “KV13”
  • Czech: “KV13”
  • Dutch: “Graf DK 13”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقبره 13”
  • Finnish: “KV13”
  • French: “KV 13”
  • French: “KV13”
  • German: “KV13”
  • Hungarian: “Királyok völgye 13”
  • Hungarian: “KV13”
  • Italian: “KV13”
  • Korean: “KV13”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “KV13”
  • Norwegian: “KV13”
  • Portuguese: “KV 13”
  • Portuguese: “KV13”
  • Russian: “KV13”
  • Spanish: “KV13”
  • Spanish: “Tumba de Bay”
  • Vietnamese: “KV13”

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Highlights include KV47 and KV38.

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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 “KV13”. Photo: R.F.Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0.