WV25
| WV25 | |
|---|---|
| Burial site of unknown | |
| Coordinates | 25°44′28.3″N 32°35′33.6″E / 25.741194°N 32.592667°E |
| Location | West Valley of the Kings |
| Discovered | 1817 |
| Excavated by | Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1817) Otto Schaden (1972) |
| Decoration | Undecorated |
Tomb WV25 is an unfinished and undecorated tomb in the West Valley of the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. It is the beginning of a royal tomb, and is thought to be the start of Akhenaten's Theban tomb. It was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1817; he found eight Third Intermediate Period mummies inside. The tomb was excavated in 1972 by the University of Minnesota's Egyptian Expedition (UMEE) led by Otto Schaden. The project uncovered pieces of the eight mummies, along with artefacts from a late Eighteenth Dynasty royal burial.