The burial tomb of Userhet in the Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings contains KV45, the burial tomb of Userhet, Overseer of the Fields of Amun. Located in a small wadi that runs east from the main valley and is adjacent to KV44, this ancient Egyptian tomb was originally used for the burial of the noble Userhet of the Eighteenth Dynasty. It was later reused by Merenkhons, the Doorkeeper of the House of Amun, and an unknown woman in the Twenty-second Dynasty.

Howard Carter discovered and excavated the tomb in February 1902 while working for Theodore M. Davis. The tomb consists of a vertical shaft three metres deep ending in a small chamber. Carter noted that the tomb had been completely destroyed by rain water in the past. While Carter found the burials of Merenkhons and an unknown woman in nested coffins, he only found fragments of alabaster canopic jars belonging to the original owner, Userhet.

In 1991, the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings Project re-investigated the site. This work recovered the remaining pieces of the double wooden coffin sets, including the face of the woman's coffin. The project also identified that water had penetrated the tomb, likely during the 1994 floods, and moved the artefacts to KV21 for protection.

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