KV38 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was used for the reburial of Pharaoh Thutmose I of the Eighteenth Dynasty. His body was originally moved from KV20 to KV38 by Thutmose III before it was ultimately relocated to the Royal Cache in Deir el-Bahri during the Third Intermediate Period.
Sjef Willockx has proposed that KV38 was originally built by Hatshepsut as a tomb for a young Thutmose III, in case the boy-king would not live to see adulthood. Willockx proposed that after Thutmose III reached adulthood, he chose to carve a new tomb, KV34, for himself while KV38 was expanded to accommodate the reburial of his grandfather, Thutmose I.
Fragments of the background of the burial chamber reveal that the tomb also contained portions of the Amduat. This is a funerary text commonly found in royal tombs of the period intended to guide deceased royalty through the afterlife.
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