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KV32

Egypt

DatedEst. 3600–2500 BCE

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Tomb KV32, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, is the burial site of Tia'a, the wife of Amenhotep II and mother of Thutmose IV.

The tomb was discovered in 1898 by Victor Loret. It is an undecorated tomb and runs back some 40 metres into the mountainside with a burial chamber (6.24 x 8.56 x 4.01 m) at the end. A portion of it was penetrated by workmen digging the original burial chamber in the tomb of Siptah KV47.

KV32 has been fully cleared, excavated and published by a team from the University of Basel's MISR Project. The finds in the tomb include hundreds of fragments of a canopic chest and fragments of lids with a human head for covering the potholes that contained the entrails of the queen. Other finds include shabtis and shabti miniature coffins with the name of the queen. Vases with the name of the mayor of Thebes, Sennefer and those of his wife Sentnay were also found.

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The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.

The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
12,000 BCE8,000 BCE4,000 BCE1 CE1,500 CE
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Est. 3600–2500 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

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Tomb KV32, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, is the burial site of Tia'a, the wife of Amenhotep II and mother of Thutmose IV. It was discovered in 1898 by Victor Loret.

The tomb is undecorated. It runs back some 40 metres into the mountainside, with a burial chamber measuring 6.24 x 8.56 x 4.01 m at the end. A portion of it was penetrated by workmen digging the original burial chamber in the nearby tomb of Siptah, KV47, when a side passage there broke through into it.

KV32 has been fully cleared, excavated and published by a team from the University of Basel's MISR Project. The finds include hundreds of fragments of a canopic chest, and fragments of lids with a human head that were used to cover the pot holes containing the entrails of the queen. Other finds include shabtis and shabti miniature coffins bearing the name of the queen. Vases with the name of the mayor of Thebes, Sennefer, and those of his wife Sentnay were also found.

The results appeared in a volume of Swiss Egyptological Studies, published in Basel in 2021. Monuments of this kind belong to a long tradition. 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, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasty. The valley became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 with the rest of the Theban Necropolis.

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The summary at the top of this page was written by Claude Sonnet 5.5 (2026-11-06) from the cited Wikipedia article “KV32”. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.