KV38

KV38
KV38
Burial site of Thutmose I
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	KV38
Coordinates	25°44′19.9″N32°35′59.1″E / 25.738861°N 32.599750°E
Location	East Valley of the Kings
Discovered	March 1899
Excavated by	Victor Loret (1899); Howard Carter (1919)
Layout	Bent-axis
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Last updated October 08, 2025

KV38 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was used for the reburial of Pharaoh Thutmose I of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and was where his body was removed to (from KV20) by Thutmose III before ultimately being relocated to the Royal Cache, located in Deir el-Bahri, during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.

On fragments of the background of the burial chamber, it was discovered that the tomb also contained portions of the Amduat, a funerary text commonly found in royal tombs of the period intended to guide deceased royalty through the afterlife.^[1]

References

↑ Richter, Barbara A. (2008). "The Amduat and Its Relationship to the Architecture of Early 18th Dynasty Royal Burial Chambers". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 44: 73–104. ISSN 0065-9991. JSTOR 27801622.

External links

Theban Mapping Project: KV38 includes detailed maps of most of the tombs.

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[:Amduat-1] Richter, Barbara A. (2008). "The Amduat and Its Relationship to the Architecture of Early 18th Dynasty Royal Burial Chambers". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 44: 73–104. ISSN 0065-9991. JSTOR 27801622.

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