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This tomb was first cut by Ramesses
III's father Setnakht.
The excavators cut the first three corridors when they found
they are breaking in the adjacent tomb of Amenmesse. At that
point Setnakht abandoned the tomb and usurped that of Twosret.
Meanwhile Ramesses III decided to continue digging in this one,
so at the end of the third corridor he shifted the axis to the
right to avoid collision with the other tomb and continued digging
the rest of the tomb. He also added side rooms to the second
corridor. The tomb has further rooms, a four-pillared hall and
finally the eight-pillared burial chamber.
The tomb is not completely excavated so the inside part is inaccessible.
After the tomb's excavation in the 19th century the red granite
sarcophagus
was taken to the Louvre museum in France and its lid to the
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (England).
The decoration of the tomb has unique representation of daily
life. In one of the second corridor's side rooms, there is a
beautiful scene of harpists playing for the king. For that reason,
the whole tomb was once called "tomb of the harpists."
The tomb has well-preserved paintings though the inner parts
severely suffered water floods. |
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