Animal Tombs
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Animal Tombs
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Animal Tombs
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Location of the
Animal Tombs
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Facts, dates and
information
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Name of the
Egyptologist who discovered the Animal Tombs was
Edward Ayrton
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The Ancient
Egyptian Necropolis - the Valley of the Kings
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Location of the
Burial Site
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Animal Tombs
Animal Tombs
Full details of Ancient Egyptian
Religion, Death Rituals, Embalmers and Mummification can be found via
the sitemap, in the Section called Egyptian Mummies. The following table lists details of the Animal Tombs including its reference
number, the date the burial place was discovered and the name and
details of the Egyptologist who discovered or excavated the Animal Tombs.
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Animal Tombs |
| Location of the
Burial Site |
Valley of the Kings |
| Number |
KV50, KV51 & KV52 |
| Name of Occupant |
Animal Tombs |
| Period
/ Kingdom |
New
Kingdom |
| Date of Period /
Kingdom |
1570 BC - 1070 BC |
| Date of
Discovery |
Antiquity |
| Name of
Egyptologist |
Re-excavated by
Edward Ayrton in 1906 |
| Nationality of
Edward Ayrton |
British |
| Lifespan of
Edward Ayrton |
1882 - 1914 |
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Additional facts and information about the
Animal Tombs & Edward Ayrton |
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The
Burial sites of Animals is no longer accessible. The Animal
tombs are a group of
three adjacent tombs numbered KV50,KV51 & KV52. These tombs
are not decorated but they held the mummies of various
animals which were believed to be the pets of royalty.
Birds, monkeys, cats, dogs and other creatures were
mummified - for details of this process please click the
following link
Egyptian
Cats.
Edward Russell
Ayrton was the son of a wealthy civil servant William Scrope
Ayrton & his wife Ellen Louisa McClatchie. He was educated
at St Paul's School in London. During his career Edward
Russell Ayrton worked with other eminent Egyptologists
including Flinders Petrie and Henri Edouard Naville. |
Ancient Egyptian
Tombs - Animal Tombs excavated by Edward Ayrton
The Valley of the Kings is a necropolis. A
necropolis is defined as a large cemetery
or burial place near the site of a center of an ancient civilization.
The Valley of the Kings, where the Animal Tombs was found, is located near the
Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes (now modern-day Luxor). There are 63
tombs which have been discovered in the Valley of the Kings belonging to
the Pharaohs and leading dignitaries. Many of the tombs were discovered
by the Egyptian tomb robbers of antiquity but during the 19th and 20th
centuries renewed interest in Egyptology led European Egyptologists,
such as Edward Ayrton, to
make further excavations in the Valley of the Kings, hoping to find
undiscovered tombs, complete with
fabulous treasures.
Ancient Egyptian Tomb numbering system
All tombs are and numbered and the legends KV, QV, WV & TT indicate their location as
follows:
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KV (e.g. KV
no.35) refers to the King Valley
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QV (e.g. QV
no.66) refers to the burial of Nerfertari in the Queen Valley
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WV (e.g. WV
no.23) refers to the burial of the Pharaoh Ay in the Western
Valley
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TT (e.g. TT
no.55) refers to the burial of Ramose designated to the
category of Theban Tomb
Animal Tombs
Each section on the subject of Egyptian Tombs addresses all topics and
provides interesting facts and information about the Golden Age of
Pharaohs and of Egypt. The Sitemap provides full details
of all of the information and facts provided about the fascinating subject
of the Animal Tombs discovered by Edward Ayrton.
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