KV28

Tomb KV28 is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, part of the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt. It is a simple rock-cut tomb, consisting of a short shaft leading to a single rectangular chamber. Nothing is recorded about any decoration, and the layout is among the plainest of the valley's tombs.

The tomb has been known since the 1830s, when it was mentioned by John Gardiner Wilkinson. In 1889 Eugène Lefébure reported that it contained parts of mummies and their bandaging. It was properly excavated only in the 1990s, by Donald P. Ryan, who found the bones of three individuals, fragments of a limestone canopic jar, numerous wooden fragments, and pottery of the early to mid Eighteenth Dynasty.

Who was buried here is not known. The occupants were possibly nobles, given the tomb's proximity to the tomb of Thutmose IV. No names, inscriptions or grave goods that identify them are recorded, so this remains an inference from location alone.

Egypt has some of the best-known rock-cut tombs in the world. In the Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile opposite Thebes, tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom, over 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. It 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. Modest tombs like KV28 are a reminder that the valley served more than the great kings.

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