Royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings typically hold just one ruler. In 1881 a tomb near Deirel-Bahri in the Theban necropolis defied these assumptions
Most of the KV35 mummies were removed from the tomb and taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but Amenhotep II’s body remained in situ. In 1901 thieves broke into the tomb. They damaged the funerary barge, smashed the mummy resting on it, and stole the body of Amenhotep II. Howard Carter, the Egyptologist who would later discover King Tut’s tomb, tracked down the culprits and recovered the pharaoh’s mummy, which had been damaged during the robbery. It was returned to the sarcophagus.
Three of the mummies that Loret discovered in tomb KV35 had been greatly damaged in antiquity, stripped of most of their bandages and removed from their coffins. The thieves broke the bodies open to extract funerary amulets, which were often made of gold and precious stones. Scholars had competing theories about their identities but little hard evidence until recently, when DNA analysis offered more clues, like for the so-called Elder Lady.
The third mummy, known as the Elder Lady, has long flowing hair, a useful clue in determining her identity. A lock of hair was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, in small nested coffins bearing the name of Tut’s likely grandmother, Queen Tiye, the great royal wife of Amenhotep III.
Howard Carter’s 1922 discovery of the intact tomb of Tutankhamun is often hailed as the greatest of all Egyptian discoveries. But the complex, interlocking family relationships between the boy king and his ancestors was better understood thanks to the huge amount of information revealed by Loret’s find at KV35 and the discovery at Deir el-Bahri.
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