KV55 – Tomb of Queen Tiye (?) or King Akhenaten (?) .. Part ( 26 )

General view

This tomb, unsculptured and uninscribed, has great historical interest . It was discovered in 1907 by Mr. Edward Russell Ayrton and Mr. Theodore Monroe Davis, and lies between the tomb of Ramses VI ( KV9 ) and that of Ramses IX ( KV6 ), quite close, in fact, to the tomb of Tutankhamun .

KV47 – Tomb of Siptah .. Part ( 25 )

Another Mr. Theodore Monroe Davis find . The tomb lies near those of Setnakht, Tuthmosis I and Seti II, in the west side of the valley . Siptah was, it will be remembered, the Pharaoh who was the first husband of Queen Tausret, and who, indeed, attained the royal title by his marriage with that lady, who was queen in her own right .

KV46 – Tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu .. Part ( 24 )

General view

This is another of the Mr. Theodore Monroe Davis finds, and was one of the most important of them, not because of any quality in the tomb itself, which is a comparatively rude and unpretentious piece of work, consisting merely of a flight of steps, a steeply sloping corridor, a second flight of steps, and the burial-chamber, but because of the historical importance of the persons who occupied it, and of the wealth and beauty of the funerary furniture found in it .