gold6958.files.wordpress/2012/11/my-documents205.jpg Sacred Geometry in Ancient Egypt by Nikolaj Ilkevic WV23 Tomb of Ay The sarcophagus KV 23 is located in the west branch of the West Valley of the Kings, beyond KV 24 and KV 25. It is though that it was the last tomb to be constructed in the West Valley and is generally considered to be the Tomb of Ay (the second last Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt). It is sometimes known as WV 23 due to its position in the West Valley which is also known as Wadi el-Gurud (Valley of the Monkeys or Valley of the Baboons) because of the representation of the baboons of the first hour of the Amduat within KV 23. No foundation deposits have been discovered to date and so it is difficult to be certain who this tomb was originally intended for. Archaeologists have suggested that its original owner could have been Akhenaten, Smenkhare or Tutankhamun, with the latter being the most popular option. It is proposed that the tomb had only just been started when the young king Tutankhamun died and so he was instead buried in KV 62 which was in a non-royal area of the Valley of the Kings and had originally been intended for Ay (who at that point was the Vizier of Tutankhamun). The tomb was discovered by Belzoni in 1816. He marked this discovery by carving the date along with his name and the date beside the entrance. However, it had already been broken into and robbed some time before and there is also copious evidence of deliberate vandalism, which is generally considered to be the work Ays successor, Horemheb. Although it was discovered in 1816, it was not fully excavated until 1908 when Howard Carter and his team cleared the tomb.
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