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WV24 — Isometric, plan and elevation images of WV24 taken from a 3d model

Hypogeum (rock-cut)

WV24

Also known asKV24

Egypt

DatedEst. 3600–2500 BCE

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Overview

Tomb WV24 (also numbered KV24) is an unfinished rock-cut tomb in the western arm of the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, at an elevation of 192.27 metres. It dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty. It was reported by Robert Hay and John Wilkinson in the 1820s and visited by Howard Carter, but was not fully explored until Otto Schaden's excavations in 1991.

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Where it sits in time

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
This site

Est. 3600–2500 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

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WV24

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It consists of a well-cut vertical shaft that opens, through a large doorway, into a single chamber.

WV24

Description

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WV24 is located 12 metres (39 ft) from the entrance of WV25 and, like that tomb, is unfinished. It consists of a well-cut vertical shaft that opens, through a large doorway, into a single chamber. The room is roughly rectangular but uneven at the eastern end, and has a low bench cut along one side.

Archaeology

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The tomb was left unfinished, a view supported by finds of a wooden mallet and fragments of chisels left by masons. It does not appear to have received an Eighteenth Dynasty burial. Fragments of furniture, glass, ivory and gold of Eighteenth Dynasty date found in the tomb probably originate from WV23.

WV24 was used in the Third Intermediate Period for the burial of at least five individuals, including a baby. Late Roman and Coptic pottery was also recovered from the tomb.