Royal occupationA sunken chamber in Amenhotep II’s tomb holds his sarcophagus, which— to the astonishment of the tomb’s discoverers—still contained the king’s mummy in 1898. Royal tombs ...

The mummy that is claimed to be Queen Nefertiti, the wife of King Akhenaten, was first discovered in 1898 by French Egyptologist Victor Loret within a cache of mummies in Tomb #35 in the Valley of the ...

Two female mummies found in 1898 in a side chamber of the Valley of the Kings’ tomb of Amenhotep II, referred to as the “Elder Lady” and the “Younger Lady,” provide some tentative answers.