Tomb KV32, located in the

Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and power ...

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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. He inherited a vast kingdom from his father Thutmose III, and held it by means of a few military campaigns i ...

and mother of

Thutmose IV Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; Ancient Egyptian: ''ḏḥwti.msi(.w)'' "Thoth is born") was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately t ...

. The tomb was discovered in 1898 by

Victor Loret Victor Clement Georges Philippe Loret (1 September 1859 – 3 February 1946) was a French Egyptologist. Biography His father, Clément Loret, was a professional organist and composer, of Belgian origin, who had been living in Paris since ...

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

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's MISR Project. The finds in the tomb include hundreds of fragments of a canopic chest 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 the 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 also found.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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kv32 1898 archaeological discoveries Buildings and structures completed in the 15th century BC Valley of the Kings