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Theodore Davis
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Theodore Davis (photo ca. 1910).
Theodore M. Davis, an American archaeologist, excavated in the Valley of the Kings in the early 1900s. Davis and his co-worker Edward R. Ayrton found the Tomb of Horemheb in February, 1908 and while excavating it, discovered numerous unique funerary reliefs from the end of the 18th Dynasty. These, including the first evidence of scenes from the Book of Gates used in royal tombs, are described in the site report by Davis et al. (1912).
Other important finds came in 1908 when, in searching for the Tomb of Horemheb near the later tomb of Ramesses VI, Davis found items including floral collars with inscriptions of Tutankhamun. These chance discoveries by Davis provided an essential clue on the actual location of the virtually undisturbed 18th Dynasty tomb of Tutankhamun, leading to its discovery 14 years later by Howard Carter in 1922. Tutankahamun's tomb was found adacent to that of Horemheb, but its entrance had been hidden by ancient workers' cottages from the overlying tomb of Ramesses VI.
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