Valley of the Kings
- KV16 tomb of Ramesses I - XIXth
Dynasty
The
tomb was discovered
10/11 October 1817 by
Giovanni Belzoni. The sarcophagus displays damage caused in levering
off the lid in antiquity to remove the royal mummy at an unrecorded date
at the end of the New Kingdom.
Remains of coffin and mummy of the ruler were moved to the Deir el-Bahari
cache DB320 and discovered in 1881. The mummy got lost in unexplained
circumstances, however after few years emerged as property of private
collector from Toronto. Many years the mummy spent as anonymous one in
Museum of Niagara Falls (Ontario) before it finally got to Atlanta
(USA). Presently there is considered moving of the royal mummy to Cairo
Museum.
A - entrance
stairs
B - corridor
C - unfinished niches
D - burial chamber
(walls decorated with scenes from the Book of
Gates and of the king before various deities; Maat on each side of entry
door)
E - side chambers
F - niche with Osiris representations
G - sarcofagus