What was the first tumb found in the Valley Of The Kings?

Answer 1

First tomb found was Ramesses VII .
The tombs are numbered in the order of 'discovery' from Ramesses VII (KV1) to the recently discovered KV63, although some of the tombs have been open since antiquity, and KV5 has only recently been rediscovered. The abbreviation "KV" stands for "Kings' Valley". A number of the tombs are unoccupied, the owners of others remain unknown, and some are merely pits used for storage. Only the principal tombs are noted here (these are the publicly accessible or best known tombs).
The tomb of Tutankhamun is KV62 –

Answer 2

Tomb WV22, in the Western arm of the Valley of the Kings, was used as the resting place of one of the greatest rulers of Egypt's New Kingdom, Amenhotep III.

It was officially discovered by Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage, engineers with Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in August 1799, but had probably been open for some time before that.

Answer 3

King Tut's tomb

Answer 4

Tumb? What's a tumb?

Answer 5

I think it was a Ramses. I know it wasn't Tut.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, that isn't an easy question to answer. Many of the tombs were open and visited by tourists even in ancient times.
We know this based on dating the language, writing style, and other elements of graffiti left by ancient tourists in the tombs.
We know ten of the Ramessid era tombs (late New Kingdom) royal tombs were open to tourists in antiquity. The earliest graffito dates to 278 BC in the tomb of Ramesses VII (KV 1). There is even evidence, in the form of guide books by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo that earlier 18th and 19th Dynasty tombs were open at various points and visited based on the "guide books" those men made available during the 1st Century BC.

After about the 6th Century AD, "tourists" seem not to have been common in the Valley - or they weren't writing on the walls at least.
The next well-recorded phase of exploration by Westerners in the Valley of the Kings is in the early 18th Century. The 18th Century was a phase of exploration of the "East" by a number of Europeans who then returned to their homes and published the accounts of their voyages and the antiquities and wonders they had seen in "exotic" lands. Many of these accounts are heavily biased, exaggerated, or contain outright lies, but they are useful for historians and archaeologists interested in knowing what was visible when and where.

The Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in the last years of the 18th Century increased attention to Egyptian antiquities and brought many scholars to Egypt, some of whom remained or returned even after Napoleon's defeat and continued exploration, description, recording, and mapping of various sites of interest. By this point in the late 18th and throughout the 19th and early 20th Centuries, various European (and later American) powers began a sort of contest to see which country could collect the most amazing, rare, unique, etc. artifacts for display in their national museums as part of the overall colonial competition between European nations of the period. This brought a number of agents of various European powers to Egypt to begin what can only be described as wholesale looting and theft of antiquities, from dragging monolithic statues out of their places to be displayed in Europe, chiselling out sections of tomb walls for the decoration, carrying mummies home to be unwrapped at parties, etc.
One of these agents was Giovanni Battista Belzoni, who worked for the British and explored the Valley of the Kings. When Belzoni first arrived in the Valley, about 16 tombs were already open for examination, but he knew from Classical accounts that there should be more. In 1816 he re-discovered the tomb of the pharaoh Ay (WV 23).
He went on to discover KV 19, the tomb of a prince which had remained relatively undisturbed since the Third Intermediate Period when it was re-used by a priestly family.
Following Belzoni's successes, others flocked to the Valley hoping to find "new" tombs and uncoverer whatever wealth they contained. The local population also got in on the action and, as one would expect, the Egyptians were far more familiar with the geography and oddities of the terrain than most Europeans. A cottage industry in looting tombs and selling the contents soon cropped up to feed the appetites of Europeans hungry for antiquities for private collections or museums.
In 1827 John Gardener Wilkinson went through the Valley and marked in paint all the tombs then revealed in a roughly sequential number. I say rough because a number of tombs had been "discovered" or open for decades, if not centuries and it isn't always possible with these earlier tombs to puzzle out which was opened first. Thus, KV 1 was not truly the "first" tomb discovered in the Valley - it's just where Wilkinson began numbering. Nor do the numbers have anything to do with the chronological sequence in which the tombs were built. So, Tutankhamun's tomb in KV 62 and dates to the late 18th Dynasty, but KV 7 is the tomb of Ramesses II, who reigned in the later 19th Dynasty. This sequence is still in use today - thus the numbering of the latest tomb discovered in the Valley as KV 63.
In 1858, the appointment of Auguste Mariette as Director of Egyptian monuments started to change the character of work in the valley and led to the founding of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, the forerunner of the modern Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. Following Mariette's direction, succeeding Directors of Antiquites and other scholars slowly began to behave more responsibly and surveys, sometimes rough but better than nothing, of the tombs began to be published.
Eventually, permission had to be sought from the Egyptian Antiquities Service to dig in the Valley, which also helped to cut down on the looting.
At present, any number of teams are working in the Valley recording already discovered tombs, re-excavating tombs that were "discovered" earlier but deemed "uninteresting" by earlier scholars, helping to conserve and restore damaged tombs, and exploring the area for as yet undiscovered tombs. One of these is the recently discovered KV-63, found by a team headed by Otto Schaden and sponsored by the University of Memphis.
A number of people wonder how it is that KV-63 went undiscovered for so long. The Valley of the Kings (actually a wadi system - an ancient, dry watercourse that may fill up with water with a sufficient amount of rain) with more than one "valley" as it were. In any case, the tombs are cut into the rock of the cliffs and were designed to be hidden. While nearly all were robbed in antiquity and/or re-used by people in later periods, it's very possible that there are other hidden tombs, especially as, despite it's name, the broader area was not restricted to kings for burial. The geology of the Valley also makes things interesting - on the occasions of rare rain storms the valley floods, getting water into the tombs, and also re-arranging the soil, often revealing features that were invisible before.