This
tomb was known to the Romans as the tomb of Memnon and to the
Napoleonic Expedition as 'La Tombe de la Metampsychose'. The burial
chamber is not completely finished, evident also in the lack of any
subsidiary rooms except for the abbreviated extension beyond the sarcophagus
hall. No sarcophagi are known for Ramesses V; any prepared had possibly been
usurped by his successor. Other finds brought to light by Edwin Brock in
1985 included pottery, fragments of wood and calcite ushabtis - and a coin
of the Roman emperior Maximian. The mummies of both
Ramesses V and Ramesses VI were
discovered in the KV35 cache in 1898. The mummy of
Ramesses V lay in the base of the white-painted wooden coffin and that of
Ramesses VI in a replacement coffin originally belonging to a high priest of
Menkheperre time.
A - entrance(solar disc adored by
goddesses)
B - first corridor
(king before Re-Horakhty and Osiris; scenes
from the Book of Gates and the Book of Caverns)
C - second corridor
(scenes from the Book of Gates and the Book of
Caverns)
D - third corridor
(scenes from the Book of Gates, the Book of
Caverns and the Books of the Heavens)
E - well chamber (scenes from the
Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns and the Books of the Heavens)
F - pillared room
(scenes from the Book of Gates, the Book of
Caverns and the Books of the Heavens)
G - fourth corridor (scenes from the
Amduat; images from the Books of the Heavens on ceiling)
H - fifth corridor
(scenes from the Amduat; images from the Books
of the Heavens on ceiling)
I - antechamber (king before
deities; scenes from the Book of the Dead)
J - burial chamber
(scenes from the Book of the Earth;
astronomical ceiling with Nut and scenes from the Books of the Heavens)
K - rear room