Tomb KV32, located in the

Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings ( ar, وادي الملوك ; Late Coptic: ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ar, وادي أبوا الملوك ), is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th ...

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, is the burial site of Tia'a, the wife of

Amenhotep II Amenhotep II (sometimes called ''Amenophis II'' and meaning '' Amun is Satisfied'') was the seventh pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Amenhotep inherited a vast kingdom from his father Thutmose III, and held it by means of a few milit ...

and mother of

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. The tomb was discovered in 1898 by

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. It is an undecorated tomb and runs back some 40 metres into the mountainside with a burial chamber (6.24 x 8.56 x 4.01 m) at the end. A portion of it was penetrated by workmen digging the original burial chamber in the tomb of Siptah

KV47 Tomb KV47, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Siptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty. It was discovered on December 18, 1905 by Edward R. Ayrton, excavating on behalf of Theodore M. Davis; Siptah's mummy ha ...

. KV32 has been fully cleared, excavated and published by a team from the

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. The finds in the tomb include hundreds of fragments of a

canopic chest Canopic chests are cases used by ancient Egyptians to contain the internal organs removed during the process of mummification. Once canopic jars began to be used in the late Fourth Dynasty, the jars were placed within canopic chests. Although th ...

and fragments of lids with a human head for covering the potholes that contained the entrails of the queen. Other finds include shabtis and shabti miniature coffins with name of the queen. Vases with the name of the mayor of Thebes,

Sennefer The ancient Egyptian noble Sennefer was "Mayor of the City" (i.e. Thebes) and "Overseer of the Granaries and Fields, Gardens and Cattle of Amun" during the reign of Amenhotep II of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Being a favourite of the king ...

and those of his wife Sentnay were found too.Jenni, Dorn, Paulin-Grothe, Aston: ''Das Grab der Königin Tiaa im Tal der Könige (KV 32)'', pp. 67–68

References

Bibliography

* Hanna Jenni, and Andreas Dorn, and Elina Paulin-Grothe, and David Aston: ''Das Grab der Königin Tiaa im Tal der Könige (KV 32)''. Swiss Egyptological Studies, SES, 1. Basel 2021. (online: https://edoc.unibas.ch/81215/)

External links

Theban Mapping Project: KV32
- Includes detailed maps of most of the tombs. 1898 archaeological discoveries Buildings and structures completed in the 15th century BC Valley of the Kings {{AncientEgypt-stub