WV25

WV25
WV25
Burial site of unknown
	WV25
Coordinates	25°44′28.3″N 32°35′33.6″E / 25.741194°N 32.592667°E
Location	West Valley of the Kings
Discovered	1817
Excavated by	Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1817); Otto Schaden (1972)
Decoration	Undecorated
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Tomb WV25 is an unfinished and undecorated tomb in the West Valley of the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. It is the beginning of a royal tomb, and is thought to be the start of Akhenaten's Theban tomb. It was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1817; he found eight Third Intermediate Period mummies inside.^[1] The tomb was excavated in 1972 by the University of Minnesota's Egyptian Expedition (UMEE) led by Otto Schaden. The project uncovered pieces of the eight mummies, along with artefacts from a late Eighteenth Dynasty royal burial.

^ Belzoni, Giovanni Battista; Belzoni, Mrs (Sarah) (1820). Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice, and of another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. London: J. Murray. pp. 223–224. Retrieved 21 June 2021.

[Belzoni_1817-1] Belzoni, Giovanni Battista; Belzoni, Mrs (Sarah) (1820). Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice, and of another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. London: J. Murray. pp. 223–224. Retrieved 21 June 2021.

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