The Tomb of Seti I, Tomb KV17 is located in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and is also known by the names “Belzoni’s tomb”, “the Tomb of Apis”, and “the Tomb of Psammis, son of Nechois”. It is the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I of the Nineteenth Dynasty, father of Ramses the Great. The tomb of Seti I is one of the largest and best decorated tombs in the Valley of the Kings, but now is almost always closed to the public due to damage. It was first discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni on 16 October 1817. When he first entered the tomb he found the wall paintings in excellent condition with the paint on the walls still looking fresh and some of the artists paints and brushes still on the floor.

The tomb contains very well preserved reliefs in all but two of its eleven chambers and side rooms. One of the back chambers is decorated with the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth, which stated that the mummy’s eating and drinking organs were properly functioning. Believing in the need for these functions in the afterlife, this was a very important ritual. A very long tunnel (corridor K) leads away deep into the mountainside from beneath the location where the sarcophagus stood in the burial chamber. Recently, the excavation of this corridor was completed. There was no ’secret burial chamber’ or any other kind of chamber at the end. Work on the corridor was abandoned upon the burial of Seti I.

The sarcophagus of Seti I was removed from the tomb on behalf of the British consul Henry Salt. KV17 was damaged when Jean-François Champollion, translator of the Rosetta Stone, removed a wall panel of 2.26 x 1.05 m in a corridor with mirror-image scenes during his 1828-29 expedition. Other elements were removed by his companion Rossellini or the German expedition of 1845. The scenes are now in the collections of the Louvre, the museums of Florence and Berlin.

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A virtual reconstruction of tomb of Nefertari, the great wife of Ramses II, helps us to appreciate the general layout plan of the tombs west of Thebes. It shows a series of corridors and chambers dug into the hillside.

The entrance has a ladder that gives access to the lobby, a hall and an attached room. Another stretch of ramp leads to the burial chamber, supported by 4 pillars. This chamber has small adjoining rooms that served as warehouses for the funerary offerings. The shrine or cella, dedicated to worship, enclosed the grave.
The decorated walls represented the journey of the deceased queen on her way up to become divine.

The tomb of Nefertari is without doubt the most beautiful in Egypt.

A quick walkthrough of a 3D model of the Tomb of Nakht. The model was made with AC3D, lit with Gile[s], and converted to a web-accessible 3D environment using Blink 3D.

Since Blink 3D has been discontinued, the Virtual Tomb of Nakht has been re-created with Unity 3D.

Dr Vasko (or Vassil) Dobrev explains his search for the tomb of Userkare – a Sixth Dynasty Pharaoh who ruled between the reign of Teti and Pepi I. In the video, Dr Dobrev explains that Egypt was in a power limbo after the assassination of Teti, until Userkare came to bring peace and restore order. He is excavating a site at Saqqara South where his team have so far covered a fifth of a hectare, out of a 15 hectare plateau.

Zahi Hawass has led an all-Egyptian team that is excavating and restoring the mysterious tunnel leading from the burial chamber of King Seti I deep into the Theban cliffs. No explorer has ever reached its end. The reason for the tunnel’s existence is unknown, but Hawass is determined to uncover its mysteries.

A team of forensic experts is on a mission for Nefertiti and the Amarna dynasty.

One of the most popular stories around the discovery of King Tutankhamun is that of the Curse of King Tut., made popular after the death of the discovery’s funder Lord Carnarvon just 6 weeks after the tomb was opened. Fuelled by a mistranslation of the Anubis statue which threatened death on all those who entered the tomb, a media frenzy took over, even though the vast majority of the team, including explorer Howard Carter, went on to live long lives. Dr Zahi Hawass recounts these tales and tells us that he had never believed in such a curse upon the Tomb of King Tutankhamen.