KV7 | |
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Burial site of Ramesses II | |
Coordinates | 25°44′26.3″N 32°36′5.61″E / 25.740639°N 32.6015583°E |
Location | East Valley of the Kings |
Discovered | Open in antiquity |
Excavated by | Henry Salt Jean-François Champollion (1829) Carl Lepsius (1844-45) Theodore Davis and Harry Burton (1913–14) Howard Carter (1917–1921) Christian Leblanc (1991) |
Decoration | Book of Gates Book of the Heavenly Cow Amduat Litany of Ra Book of the Dead Opening of the Mouth[1] |
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Tomb KV7 was the tomb of Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"), an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Nineteenth Dynasty.
It is located in the Valley of the Kings opposite the tomb of his sons, KV5, and near to the tomb of his son and successor Merenptah, KV8.