WV22

id: wv22-254-17808000
title: WV22
text: Tomb WV22, also known as KV22, was the burial place of Amenhotep III, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the western arm of the Valley of the Kings. The tomb is unique in that it has two subsidiary burial chambers for the pharaoh's wives Tiye and Sitamen. It was officially discovered in August 1799 by Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage, engineers with Napoleon's expedition to Egypt but had probably been open for some time. The tomb was first excavated in the early 1900s by T
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description: Ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WV22
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date modified: 2024-04-08T22:38:20Z
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