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Seti II promoted Chancellor Bay to become his most important state official and built 3 tombs – KV13, KV14, and KV15 – for himself, his Senior Queen Twosret and Bay in the Valley of the Kings. This was an unprecedented act on his part for Bay, who was of Syrian descent and was not connected by marriage or blood ties to the royal family.
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni Discovered Pharaoh Seti I's Tomb
- What Was Inside Seti I's Tomb?
- Belzoni's Failure with The Sarcophagus of Seti I
- Why Was Seti I's Tomb So Lavishly Decorated and large?
"The tomb was intact, undisturbed for more than three thousand years. The colors were clear and bright as on the day it was finished, the brushes of the ancient artists still lying on the floor. A royal tomb of colossal proportions and beautiful carvings, it offered instant fame and fortune to its discoverer." 1 Belzoni certainly wanted fame and mo...
Pharaoh Seti I had no intentions of being put to rest in a small insignificant tomb. He needed and wanted something quite extraordinary on his journey to the afterlife. Shortly after having been crowned, the Pharaoh ordered to start building his colossal tomb in the Valley Of the Kings. When Belzoni discovered Seti I's tomb in 1817, he estimated th...
When Belzoni found Seti I's sarcophagus, he understood this was a very precious object worth a lot of money. Knowing his employer wanted to sell the coffin, Belzoni inscribed his name on the sarcophagus so that everyone would know he was the discoverer of the Egyptian coffin. He hoped this would bring him some money once the object had been sold. S...
Every Pharaoh wanted a stunning burial chamber, but Seti I's tomb is the most extraordinary tomb unearthed in Egypt. One can wonder why he should deserve a tomb that is the most splendid ever built. Pharaoh Seti I before Osiris, wall painting from KV17. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg - CC BY-SA 4.0 Looking from ancient Egyptians' per...
Seti II (flourished 13th–12th century bce) was a king of ancient Egypt (c. 1202–c. 1198 bce). Seti, the immediate successor of his father, Merneptah , was one of the last rulers of the 19th dynasty (c. 1292–c. 1191 bce ), which was marked by short reigns, dynastic intrigue, and usurpations.
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Jan 5, 2024 · Seti II was interred in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, designated as KV15 following tradition. However, his mummy was safeguarded from tomb raiders during the 21st Dynasty, hidden within the cache of the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35). It was discovered towards the end of the 19th century.
His tomb had not yet been completed, so the plan was hastily amended with a corridor being converted into the burial chamber and many funerary objects being represented by poorly executed paintings on the tomb walls.
Dec 21, 2016 · Returning to the tunnel, it was probably meant to reach groundwater - creating a symbolic link between the pharaoh’s burial and the myth of the tomb of Osiris. In royal tombs, the cenotaph was placed on a false sarcophagus on an ''island'' surrounded by water.
Altenmuller proposed that Seti was originally buried in the tomb of Tausret ( KV 14) and later moved into KV 15 by Setnakhte (or Ramesess III) who reconsecrated the tomb and replaced the cartouches.
