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Tomb of Horemheb (KV 57): entrance (1909 photo)
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Entrance to the Tomb of Horemheb (photo Davis 1909)
Horemheb, buried in tomb KV 57, was the last monarch of the 18th Dynasty, ruling from 1319-1292 BC. The entrance to his tomb was discovered on Feb. 25, 1908 by Theodore M. Davis and Edward R. Ayrton, who over the next several years cleared and excavated it. The tomb, which was still unfinished but was decorated in several rooms with well-executed reliefs, was filled with rubble and had been looted by tomb robbers.
Horemheb's Tomb is located close to that of Tutankhamun (KV 62), which has a considerably shorter entranceway. Both Horemheb's and Tutankhamun's tombs are overlain by the later Tomb of Ramesses VI (KV 9). Construction rubble and workers' dwellings related to the Tomb of Ramesses VI overlay and hid the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb. When Davis was searching for the entrance to Horemheb's Tomb, he found fragmentary items related to Tutankhamun, which provided clues for the eventual finding of the latter's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922.
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