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On January 6, 1907 a mysterious tomb was uncovered in the Valley of the Kings by English archaeologist Edward R. Ayrton, digging on behalf of Theodore M. Davis. Initially identified as the burial of Amenophis III's queen, Tiye (Tyi), on the basis of a spectacular gilded shrine which formed part of the burial equipment, the body itself was later recognized as that of a man buried in a coffin adapted for the use of an Amarna-period pharaoh. Was this the mummy of Akhenaten himself, as some at the time believed? Or the body of Akhenaten's mysterious co-regent, Smenkhkare? Almost a century later, Tomb 55 (as it is now generally known) continues to baffle archaeologist and Egyptologist alike. The Tomb of Queen Tyi, which first appeared in 1910, was Davis's official account of the enigmatic Tomb 55 discovery, and remains a crucial source both for the Amarna period and for Valley of the Kings studies generally. It is here republished with Davis's equally fundamental The Tomb of Siphtah, which details the excavator's discoveries of 1905-7 - among them the extraordinary animal tombs and the Gold Tomb, one of the greatest caches of 19th Dynasty jewelry ever found.

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Author

Theodore M. Davis; Gaston Maspero; Edward Russell Ayrton; Georges Daressy

Publisher

Bristol Classical Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780715630730

Category

history

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Science

Rating

5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14