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The KV55 mummy was originally given an estimated age of death from about twenty to twenty five years, which was seen as being far too young to be Akhenaten himself .< ref > Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) pp. 201-202 </ ref > However, this identification was problematic as the archaeological evidence and inscriptions found in this tomb suggested that the body in KV55 was that of Akhenaten .< ref > Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications.
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KV55 and mummy
In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that he was the son of Akhenaten ( mummy KV55 ) and Akhenaten's sister and wife ( mummy KV35YL ), whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as " The Younger Lady " mummy found in KV35 .< ref name =" Hawass2010 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.
Sometimes identified with the mummy from KV55, and therefore Tutankhamun's father.
The presence of a shrine dedicated to Tiye is usually seen as evidence that Tiye's mummy once reposed inside the shrine in KV55.
After the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun a close resemblance was noted between his mummy and the body found in KV55 and later tests showed both shared the same blood-group ( A2 ) and serum antigen ( MN ), all of which suggests Tutankhamun and the individual found in KV55 were closely related to each other, either as father and son, or brothers.
Based on these results it was concluded that the KV55 body was too young to be Akhenaten and they were seen to support the claim that the mummy was that of Smenkhkare, an idea first proposed by Rex Engelbach in 1931.
Believed by a growing number of experts to be the mummy found in KV55, he is thought to be a younger son of Amenhotep III and queen Tiye, and therefore a younger brother of Akhenaten.
The skull of the KV55 mummy is believed to be Akhenaten or Smenkhkare.
As pointed out above, the reason some scholars distinguish between a male and female co-regent / successor of Akhenaten rests on the identification of the KV55 mummy as that of Smenkhkare.
This identification was based on anatomical evidence indicating that the KV55 body was that of a male, and shared the same rare blood type as Tutankhamun, and came to the conclusion that this mummy and Tutankhamun are closely related, either as father and son or as brothers.
We may never be able to prove the age of this mummy at death, but it is probable that the ancient Egyptians who buried ( and later desecrated ) the body in KV55 believed it to be Akhenaten's .< ref > Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > pp. 135 </ ref >
The reports sum up the issue by saying that " the proof that Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye are the parents of KV55, combined with this anthropological and archaeological evidence, indicates that the mummy in KV55 is almost certainly Akhenaten ".
The most widely accepted theory for these latter variations is that the items were originally intended for Smenkhkare, who may or may not be the mysterious KV55 mummy.
KV55 mummy cannot be Akhenaten, known to be her father from historical records.
The DNA retrieved of the KV21a mummy fits with her being the mother of the fetuses, but not the daughter of KV55.
B ) the KV55 mummy is not Akhenaten, but another brother of his, possibly the ephemeral Smenkhare.
KV55 and was
The entrance to KV55 was uncovered by Ayrton on 6 January 1907.
This recess may have been an unfinished tomb commencement, and its content may be analogous to the embalming cache found in KV54, but because the find was never properly published, the precise nature of its contents, the date of the jars, and its relation ( if any ) to KV55 are now unclear.
Such a plan seems to indicate that KV55, like KV62, was initially intended as a private burial site and only later taken over for a royal interment .< ref > Reeves, N., Wilkinson, R. H., < cite > The Complete Valley of the Kings </ cite >, ( Thames & Hudson.
The orderly arrangement of the shrine parts inside the tomb seems to indicate that it once stood up, fully assembled, with its doors facing south, and that it was later dismantled inside the tomb .< ref > Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 120 </ ref > It appears that only a single shrine was used in KV55, rather than a suite of four nested shrines as in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
When KV55 was initially opened, Theodore Davis believed that he had found the tomb of Queen Tiye.
The deposit as it was found in KV55 presents a mixture of chronological and religious anomalies.
It is nevertheless highly unlikely that either of these two burials within KV55 was original.
From inscriptional evidence on the KV55 shrine on the other hand, it seems likely that Tiye was buried at Amarna by her son Akhenaten.
Although it is unclear whether or not the original blocking of the tomb was stamped with Tutankhamun's seal, the several small seal impressions carrying his prenomen are most likely related to the reburial ( s ) in KV55 since he was probably not involved in the original burial preparations of either Tiye ( who died several years before Tutankhamun came to the throne ) or Akhenaten ( who presumably was buried by his co-regent and probable immediate successor Smenkhkare ).< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 44 </ ref >
One scenario, suggested by Nicholas Reeves, is as follows: Akhenaten and his mother, Queen Tiye, were originally entombed at Akhenaten's new capital Akhetaten ( modern Amarna ) but their mummies were moved to KV55 following the total abandonment of Akhetaten during the reign of Tutankhamun, who was Akhenaten's son.
The door to KV55 was sealed with Tutankhamun's name.
KV55 and from
8 ) The Younger Lady from KV35-A daughter of Amenhotep III and Tiye, mother of Tutankhamun and sister-wife of KV55.
According to a letter from Davis to Gaston Maspero, some of the objects found in KV55 were still in place in January 1908, and their study and attempts at conservation were still ongoing at this later date .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite >, ( Keegan Paul, 1990 ), p
Profile view of the skull recovered from KV55
" All artifacts relating to Kiya derive from Amarna, Akhenaten's short-lived capital city, or from Tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings.
KV55 and which
Her coffin and canopic jars were taken over for the burial of a king ( probably Smenkhkare ), which was ultimately discovered in tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings.
KV55 and be
One of the four Egyptian alabaster canopic jars found in KV55, depicting what is thought to be the likeness of Queen Kiya.
The archaeological, inscriptional and now genetic evidence indicate that the ancient Egyptians who buried ( and later desecrated ) the body in KV55 correctly believed this to be Akhenaten's.
KV55 and Akhenaten
Her gilded burial shrine ( showing her with Akhenaten ) ended up in KV55 while shabtis belonging to her were found in Amenhotep III's WV22 tomb.
KV55 and Egypt
KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
The Ancient Egyptian vulture pectoral ( Ancient Egypt ) | pectoral found on the head of the mysterious Pharaoh in tomb KV55
This was a time of intense activity – the discovery of the tombs of Yuya and Tuya, KV55, the tomb of Horemheb, travels in the Eastern Desert, a popular biography of Akhnaten, a Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt.
KV55 and .
In 1921, while excavating south of the tomb, Howard Carter discovered several items that seem to have originated in KV55.
Three days before the discovery of KV55, Ayrton uncovered a recess in the rock ( now designated as KVC ) located immediately above the entrance to KV55 and containing jars of 20th dynasty type.
KV55 is a relatively small, undecorated, single-chamber tomb, its total length measuring only 27. 61 meters.
The problems surrounding the interpretation of KV55 are due in large part to the shortcomings of Davis's original publication of the excavation.
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