Tutankhamun’s tomb: yes it is here, no it is not included
Is Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings?
Yes. KV62 is a Valley of the Kings tomb and it is ticketed as one, on the Ministry’s own printed price list alongside Seti I, Ramses V and VI, and Ay. If you are standing in the valley, you are standing at his tomb. What you are not doing, unless you have bought a second ticket, is going into it.
What it costs, and what that money is next to
EGP 700 for an adult, EGP 350 for a student. That is on top of the EGP 750 general entry, not instead of any part of it. The number worth holding next to it is the general ticket itself: for slightly more than the price of this one tomb you can enter three others. The whole grid, with the Valley of the Queens beside it, is on the ticket price list, and why the general ticket and the add-ons are separate things at all is on what the ticket includes.
| What you pay | Adult | What you get in |
|---|---|---|
| EGP 750 general entry | EGP 750 | Three tombs of your choice |
| KV62 on its own | EGP 700 | One tomb |
| KV9 on its own | EGP 220 | One tomb |
| General entry + KV62 | EGP 1,450 | Four tombs |
| General entry + KV62 + KV9 | EGP 1,670 | Five tombs |
The part that saves people money
Buying one of those tickets does not use up one of your three. The three tombs on the general ticket stay yours. Six independent sources say so explicitly. If you have paid the EGP 700, you have not spent a general-ticket tomb on it, and the three you chose are still yours to use.
Is he still in there? Yes, and you can see him
This is the question people actually type, and it has a plain answer. Tutankhamun’s mummy is in KV62, on display, and has been since 4 November 2007 — 85 years to the day after Carter’s discovery, when the linen-wrapped mummy was taken out of its golden coffin and placed in a climate-controlled glass box inside the tomb. That is the whole of it: he is there, he is visible, and the ticket that gets you to him is the one priced above.
He is also staying. In 2025 Ali Abdel-Halim, director of the Egyptian Museum, confirmed that Tutankhamun would remain in the Valley of the Kings. So the answer to all four versions of this question — is he in the valley, is he still buried here, is he still in the tomb, can you see him — is yes, and it costs EGP 700 on top of your entry ticket.
One note on where that comes from, because this site grades its sources out loud. The prices on this page are official: they are on the Ministry’s own printed list. The mummy is not in that class. It rests on a reference encyclopaedia article rather than on a ministry announcement, which is a weaker kind of source, and it is the clearest statement anybody has published. We are telling you which is which rather than levelling them into one confident voice.
What this page still will not do is describe the decoration. The only source we found for it is a tour operator’s own sales copy, which is marketing rather than scholarship. KV62 is a small tomb next to the great corridor tombs — the paying visitor quoted further down this page called it “amazing, but small” — and a page that sold it to you on its artwork would be setting up exactly the disappointment this site exists to prevent.
Is it worth EGP 700?
Opinion is divided, and we are not going to resolve it for you with adjectives. What we can do is set out the trade honestly, because the same money buys very different things a hundred metres away.
What works
- The mummy is in there, on display, which is the thing most people are actually asking about and the one thing here that is not on offer anywhere else
- It does not cost you one of your three general-ticket tombs, so the choice is purely about the EGP 700 and nothing else
- A student pays EGP 350, which changes the arithmetic more than any other discount in the valley
Worth knowing
- It is a small tomb beside the great corridor tombs, and this site publishes no description of its decoration, so do not come for the walls
- EGP 700 is more than three times the EGP 220 that KV9 costs, and two independent sources call KV9 the best value in the valley
- It is one tomb. The general ticket at EGP 750 is three.
The comparison that decides it for a lot of people is with KV9, which is EGP 220 and carries roughly 995 ancient visitor inscriptions dating from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD, an almost complete Book of Caverns, and a vaulted ceiling with a double elongated figure of the sky goddess Nut framing the Book of the Day and the Book of the Night. That is a specific description from scholarly sources, and nothing of the kind exists here. So the two tickets are not really competing for the same reason: one is bought for what is on the walls, the other for who is in the room.
If the budget only stretches to one add-on, the argument for KV9 over KV17 is worked through on the Seti I page, and the ranking of the tombs on the general ticket is on which three to choose.
The US$95 version of the same tomb
One GetYourGuide product sells entry to this tomb at US$95 per person. The tomb is EGP 700 at the window, which is about US$14 at roughly 50 EGP to the dollar — the mid-market rate read on 16–17 August 2026. That is around seven times the counter price, and both numbers deserve to be seen together rather than one at a time.
- At the ticket window
- EGP 700
- Which is about
- US$14
- The listed product
- US$95
It is not a scam and this page will not call it one. Its own listing says a guide, fast-track entry and the visitor centre, and those cost money to provide. The same listing also says “Optional Visit to Additional Tombs — depending on your ticket type”, and that clause is doing a great deal of work: nobody reading the page can tell you what the price admits you to, so this page does not tell you either. What the extra buys is guiding, transfer and convenience — not the ticket.
One written review is not a verdict
The 4.4 on that listing rests on 3 ratings, of which exactly one carries any written text at all. An average of three numbers does not become a measurement by being printed next to a star, and this site treats it accordingly.
That single account is still worth reading, as one customer’s experience of one booking rather than as anything the product promises. The reviewer wrote that the guide “gave us our general entry ticket and our specific one for the tomb of Tutankhamun”. So for that person the price covered both the EGP 750 entry and the EGP 700 add-on — EGP 1,450 together, about US$29 at the same rate. It is a buyer’s description of what happened to them, not an inclusions list, and this site does not turn one into the other. Read the product’s own words before you pay.
The same review carries one operational detail nobody else reports: “Guides aren’t allowed in the tombs themselves”, so the guide talked outside and the customer went down alone. We found no second source for that, so treat it as one account — but if it holds, it is worth knowing that the guiding you are paying for happens in the open air. And the line that customer finished on is the whole argument of this site arriving from the other direction: “Overall it was worth it, but I might just hire a driver and pay for entry in future.”
All six products, each with the number of reviews behind its rating, are set out on the tours page, and the whole day’s spend is assembled on what it costs.
Practical things that apply here
- Buy at the window, by card. Entry tickets have been card-only since June 2023 — paying by card.
- Photography. The personal permit has been abolished, including for DSLR; tripods, flash and drones are all prohibited. We do not carve out any individual tomb from that, in either direction, because the sources do not settle it. See photography.
- Time. Two hours is a comfortable pace for three tombs; three to four if you add the paid ones. Neither includes the ticket queue, the tram or the drive — how much time you need.
- The pass. There is a Luxor Pass, sold in person only, and the tier that adds Seti I and Nefertari is the Premium one. What else each tier covers is not something this site lists, and the reason is on the Luxor Pass page.
If you are travelling with someone who is only going to remember one name from the day, it will be this one, and EGP 700 is a small price to avoid the conversation that starts “we were right there”. If nobody in your group feels that, the EGP 700 buys three more tombs somewhere else in Luxor. Both answers are correct; they are just answers to different questions.
Frequently asked questions
Is Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings?
Yes. It is KV62, in the Valley of the Kings on the Luxor West Bank, and it appears on the Ministry’s printed price list as a separately ticketed tomb.
How much does it cost to visit Tutankhamun’s tomb?
EGP 700 for an adult and EGP 350 for a student, bought on top of the EGP 750 general entry ticket. It does not use up one of the three tombs the general ticket admits you to.
Is Tutankhamun’s tomb included in the general ticket?
No. The general ticket at EGP 750 admits you to three tombs of your choice, and KV62 is not one of the options — it is sold separately at EGP 700.
Is Tutankhamun still in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings?
Yes. His mummy has been on display inside KV62 since 4 November 2007, in a climate-controlled glass box, and in 2025 the director of the Egyptian Museum confirmed Tutankhamun would remain in the Valley of the Kings. Seeing him costs EGP 700 on top of your entry ticket. That fact comes from a reference encyclopaedia rather than from a ministry announcement, which is a weaker class of source than the prices on this page.
Is Tutankhamun’s tomb worth the extra ticket?
Opinion is divided and this site will not pretend otherwise. It costs EGP 700 against EGP 220 for Ramses V and VI, which two independent sources call the best value in the valley. What is verified here is the mummy, on display in the tomb. KV62 is small beside the great corridor tombs and this site publishes no description of its decoration, so buy the ticket for who is in the room rather than for what is on the walls.
Why does a Tutankhamun tomb ticket cost US$95 online?
Because that price is not only the ticket. The tomb is EGP 700 at the window, about US$14 at roughly 50 EGP to the dollar on 16–17 August 2026; the listed product is US$95 and the difference is guiding, transfer and convenience. Its own page adds “Optional Visit to Additional Tombs — depending on your ticket type”, so what it admits you to cannot be stated here, and its 4.4 rests on only 3 ratings, one of which carries any written text.