This tomb was excavated by Mr. Howard Carter and Mr. Theodore
Monroe Davis in 1903 . The results of the work are now to be seen in the Cairo
Museum ( see No. 3000, U 48, east, there, the front of the king's
battle-chariot ) .
This tomb was certainly made for a royalty, but it is
unfinished and uninscribed . It consists of a rough flight of steps, a sloping
passage, a small chamber, and the oval burial-hall, with two pillars .
This tomb was found by Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard
Carter in 1914, at the head of a small lateral valley of the ravine at the
extreme northern end of the Theban necropolis, above " Dra Abu el-Naga
" .
From the point of view of history, this tomb is the most important in
the valley, as it was the one which set the fashion of such interments . It
lies on the west side of the valley close to the tomb of Tausert and Setnakht (
KV14 ) and between it and that of Seti II ( KV15 ) .