Thutmosis 3 (KV34)
Thutmosis 3 the younger brother or nephew of Queen Hatsepsut. He was probably the son of Thutmosis 1 or Thutmosis 2 and of a haremwife called Nefert. When Thutmosis 2 died he was too young at the age of 4 to succeed his father, so his aunt or halfsister stepped in as regent. Her ambition grew by the years and with help of her loyal Steward Senmut she pushed him away and sent him to the army. After almost 30 years, afetr the Hebsed festival of Hatshepsut, the lion broke loose and overtook the thrown by force. He was a great general and was famous for his battles at Megiddo and Kadesh. He was also the one he introduced the usage of horses in the army, the famous light charriots.
He choose for his burial site the Valley, and followed in that the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who both have a tomb in the valley, near the location of KV35. His tomb is typical 18th dynastie, with an entrance and an angle of 90 degrees and an oval burial chambre. The tombs of Thutmosis 1 and 2 are in fact even smaller and unfinished.
The walls are painted instead of carved and show scenes of the Book of the Dead, Amduat.
Today its one of the tombs wich suffers the most from the visitors, because its so very deep and filled with bad air. In the 80īs a glass wall was placed inside the burial chambre, but we got the whole chambre without the glass, from a visit in 1978.
Hatsepsut was buried but the place is unknown. In 2010 her mummy was discovered by Zahi Hawass in the burial pitt, in front of the entrance of the tomb of Monthuherkhopsef.
Status: Open, glass, since June 2003 its no longer allowed to take pictures
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