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placed over it. This is the last known example of a sarcophagus placed in a royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings, all subsequent burials consisting of deeper pits which were covered by a lid. The tomb was robbed in antiquity, and the mummy presumably lost, though four cups inscribed with the
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constructed tombs that had followed this pattern and were all decorated in much the same manner as each other. It consists of four major parts: the entrance, a passageway, the burial chamber containing the sarcophagus, and a smaller room at the end.
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The tomb was one of at least eleven tombs that were open to early travelers. As evidence of this, 132 individual graffitis left by
Ancient Greek and Roman visitors have been counted throughout KV1. Later, the tomb was used as a dwelling by
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Ramesses VII was in the seventh year of his reign when he died. There is evidence that the burial chamber was expanded from its original design as a corridor, and work on a subsequent room at the end of the tomb was halted.
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decorated with sketches presumably by the tomb's artists, a floral garland and numerous contemporaneous pottery shards.
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surveyed the Valley of the Kings and designated KV1 as "1er
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Typical of tombs from this period, KV1 is laid out along a straight axis. The successors of
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Though not documented, the tomb was cleared in the 1950s. Starting in 1983, funded by the
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cleaned the walls and repaired cracks with plaster. In doing so, they covered over
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in 1984 and 1985. The single corridor tomb is located in
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1172:Royal Cache
1133:Exploration
1086:West Valley
901:(Maiherpri)
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1160:See also
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207:Tomb KV1
186:Straight
128:Location
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872:(Tia'a)
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