In mere extent this is one of the greatest tombs in the valley, being
700 feet in length, and reaching a vertical depth below the surface of about
320 feet .
It has, however, neither reliefs nor inscriptions, though limestone
slabs were found in it with chapters and scenes from The Book of that which is in the Underworld sketched in red and black
ink, and evidently designed for a lining to the tomb . It was evidently intended
to run the axis of the tomb directly towards the queen's great funerary temple
at El-Deir el-Bahari, so that the sarcophagus-chamber should be immediately
below the shrine . Bad rock was, however, encountered, and the tomb had to be
cut in a sweeping curve .
The work is rough, and was obvioualy never completed in any sense ; yet
there is no doubt that Hatshepsut was buried here, and not in her other tomb
high up in the cliff-face, where her other unfinished sarcophagus was
discovered, as already mentioned, by Howard Carter in 1916 . This tomb was also
cleared by Howard Carter, working with Mr. T. M. Davis, in 1903 .
In the burial-chamber the queen's sarcophagus, of red crystalline
sandstone . Her Canopic chest, of the same material, and the sarcophagus of her
father Tuthmosis I, also of the same stone, These are now in the Cairo Museum (
Nos. 619, 620, G 33, west ) .
The tomb had been thoroughly robbed, and Tuthmosis I apparently found no
more security in his daughter's tomb than in his own . His mummy was found at
El-Deir el-Bahari ; but Hatshepsut's has never been identified .
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