Get to Know More about King Ramses VI Tomb in Luxor

Ramses VI the son of King Ramses III, the last of the great pharaohs of Egypt, and Queen Isis Ta Ham Jat. He built a tomb for his mother in the Queens Valley in the Luxor western. Also, his reign was a great period, like his predecessors from the Ramesside kings, despite the short period of his reign.

The Egyptologist and the Antiquities Museum Alexandria director Dr. Hussein-Bassir, explained that Ramses VI reduced the number of workers and technicians working in the Deir el-Medina area on the western mainland of Luxor, and buried his predecessor King Ramses V, in an unknown cemetery in the Tiba cemetery.

In addition, he desecrated the King Ramesses V. tomb for himself, expanded and adorned it, as well as completed the works that were started by his predecessors from the kings in the mortuary temple in the Qurna area on the Luxor western mainland.

On other hand, Ramses VI died after a reign of about eight years and was succeeded by King Ramses VII, and King Ramses VI was buried in Cemetery No. 9 in the Kings Valley in the Luxor western mainland, which was looted after the end of the reign of the Twentieth Dynasty,

The king's mummy was transferred Ramses VI, to the cache of mummies found in the tomb of King Amenhotep II or tomb No. 35 of the Kings Valley tombs, where they were found.

Noteworthy, Ramses VI tomb included only one of three complete copies of the well-known "Book of Gates" among the most prominent royal funerary books in ancient Egypt. in addition, a full copy of "The Book of Caves" and "The Book of What Is in the Underworld" or "The Emmy" Duat, "The Book of the Heavenly Cow", "The Book of the Night", and "The Book of the Day".

The tomb is a rich record of religious books in ancient Egypt in the empire era or the modern state era.