KV13

Tomb KV13 is located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was cut and decorated for the burial of the noble Bay of the Nineteenth Dynasty. The Valley of the Kings lies on the west bank of the Nile opposite Thebes, where tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom for a period of nearly 500 years, from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasty.

An ostraca published in the French Egyptological journal BIFAO in 2000 records that Chancellor Bay was executed by pharaoh Siptah. As a result Bay was never buried in his tomb, and no funerary goods belonging to him were found there.

The tomb was later reused by two princes of the Twentieth Dynasty: Mentuherkhepsef, a son of Ramesses III, and his nephew Amenherkhepshef, a son of Ramesses VI. No further details of its layout or contents are given.

Monuments of this kind in the valley are usually grouped in two main sections, the East Valley where most royal tombs lie and the West Valley, known as the Valley of the Monkeys. The valley is known to contain 65 tombs and chambers. It gained great attention after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 with the rest of the Theban Necropolis.

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