KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while he was working in the Valley for Theodore M. Davis.
Both the tomb's history and the identification of its single occupant are problematic. It is assumed to be a royal cache and reburial dating from the late 18th Dynasty, which was established after the abandonment of Amarna and the dismantling of the royal necropolis there. The mummy found in t...
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KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while he was working in the Valley for Theodore M. Davis.
Both the tomb's history and the identification of its single occupant are problematic. It is assumed to be a royal cache and reburial dating from the late 18th Dynasty, which was established after the abandonment of Amarna and the dismantling of the royal necropolis there. The mummy found in the tomb is most often identified as either Akhenaten or his successor Smenkhkare. On the basis of the recovered artefacts it is also assumed that the burial at one point contained more than one occupant, either interred on one occasion or over a period of time, Queen Tiye is most often named in this context. It is also clear that the tomb was re-entered at a later time, almost certainly during the 20th Dynasty. It is most likely at this time that other occupants of the tomb were removed and (possibly) relocated to KV35, while the remaining...
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