KV33

Tomb KV33 is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It lies close to the tomb of Thutmose III, KV34, high in the cliffs at the end of a side valley. It was used for the burial of an unknown individual, and its layout is simple.

The tomb is neatly cut. It is entered by 10 well-cut steps that descend into a central chamber, off which are two side rooms. When excavated, it was filled with debris to a height of 1.2 metres (3.9 ft), washed in as two separate layers. Clearing the fill yielded large stones probably used to seal the entrance, pieces of pottery and alabaster jars, and fragmentary human remains.

Victor Loret discovered it in 1898. In the early 1900s it was open to tourists, and Baedeker's guidebook to Egypt described it as a small tomb with two empty rooms, reached by a flight of steps. In modern times a bench was built over the entrance. The University of Basel's Kings' Valley Project removed the bench and excavated the tomb for the first time in 2012.

On the basis of pottery style, the tomb can be dated to the Eighteenth Dynasty, most likely to the reign of Thutmose III. Egypt's Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile opposite Thebes, was used for tombs of pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasty. Who lay in KV33 remains unknown.

KV33 is located close to KV34, the tomb of Thutmose III, high in the cliffs at the end of a side valley. Its layout has been known since the early 1900s when it was described in Baedeker's travel guidebook as being a "small tomb with two empty rooms, reached by a flight of steps." The tomb is neatly cut.