Amonhotep 2 (KV35)

He was the son of Thutmosis 3 and succeeded him during the 18th dyn. Both tombs have a great resemblance, and are decorated in a very different way, compaired to the Ramesside ones. Not depicted or ingraved, but written in hieratic, with wonderful scenes from the Book of Amduat, the Book of the Dead.

The early 18th dyn tombs were small and built with an angle of 90 degrees, and a pitt to avoid flooding, located at the end of the valley, at the foot of the cliffs. The Ramesside tombs were just large deep and straight and centered in the valley.

The tomb was discovered by Loret (1898), containing the mummies of the Faraos: Thutmosis 4, Amenophis 3, Siptah, Merenpath, Sethnakht, Sethi 2, Ramses 4, 5, 6

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