Tomb WV24 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the western arm of the

Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings ( ar, وادي الملوك ; Late Coptic: ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ar, وادي أبوا الملوك ), is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th ...

. 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 Otto John Schaden (August 26, 1937 – November 23, 2015) was an American Egyptologist. He was the field director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis (Tennessee). In addition to his work on the tomb of Amenmesse (KV10) in th ...

's excavations in 1991.

Location, layout, and contents

WV24 is located from the entrance of WV25 and, like this tomb, is unfinished. The tomb dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty and consists of a well-cut vertical shaft that opens, via a large doorway, to a single unfinished chamber. Given its close association with WV25, Richard H. Wilkinson and Schaden suggest it may have been intended for a high ranking noble, or perhaps it was meant to be a storage chamber for overflow from the royal burial, as seen with

WV23 Tomb WV23, also known as KV23, is located in the Western Valley of the Kings near modern-day Luxor, and was the final resting place of Pharaoh Ay of the Eighteenth Dynasty. The tomb was discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni in the winter of 18 ...

and

WVA WVA, also known as KV A, is a small single room tomb in the Western Valley of the Kings associated with WV22, the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep III of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Located south of the tomb of Amenhotep III, it was discovered ...

. The amount of work done of the cutting of both this tomb and WV25 suggest the tombs were commenced and abandoned at the same time. The tomb does not appear to have received an Eighteenth Dynasty burial. However, it was later used in the

Third Intermediate Period The Third Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt began with the death of Pharaoh Ramesses XI in 1077 BC, which ended the New Kingdom, and was eventually followed by the Late Period. Various points are offered as the beginning for the latt ...

for the burial of at least five individuals, including a baby.

References

*Reeves, N & Wilkinson, R.H. The Complete Valley of the Kings, 1996, Thames and Hudson, London. *Siliotti, A. Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples, 1996, A.A. Gaddis, Cairo.

External links

Theban Mapping Project:WV24
- Includes detailed maps of most of the tombs. WV24 {{AncientEgypt-stub