KV14

Tomb KV14 is a joint tomb in the Valley of the Kings, used originally by Tausert and then reused and extended by Setnakhte. It is located in the main body of the Valley. The tomb has been open since antiquity, but it was not properly recorded until Hartwig Altenmüller excavated it from 1983 to 1987.

It has two burial chambers, and the later extensions make it one of the largest of the Royal Tombs, at over 112 metres long. The original decoration showing the female Twosret was replaced with decoration showing the male Setnakhte.

It is possible that Seti II was also buried in KV14 before being moved to the hastily finished KV15, perhaps by Setnakhte, in order to take over KV14 for his own tomb. The record does not say more about who was buried here, and the dating of the tomb is only a typological estimate.

Rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile opposite Thebes, 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. The valley has two main sections, the East Valley where most royal tombs lie and the West Valley, known as the Valley of the Monkeys, and it is known to contain 65 tombs and chambers. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 with the rest of the Theban Necropolis.

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