Tomb KV32, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, is the burial site of Tia’a, the wife of Amenhotep II and mother of Thutmose IV.
Description of Tomb KV32
The tomb was discovered in 1898 by Victor Loret. It is an undecorated tomb that runs back 40 metres into the mountainside, with a burial chamber (6.24 x 8.56 x 4.01 m) at the end. Workers digging the original burial chamber in the tomb of Siptah KV47 penetrated a portion of it.
Excavation
Tomb KV32 has been fully cleared, excavated and published by a team from the University of Basel’s MISR Project. The finds in the tomb include hundreds of fragments of a canopic chest and fragments of lids with a human head covering the potholes that contained the queen’s entrails. Other finds include shabtis and shabti miniature coffins with the queen’s name. Vases with the name of the mayor of Thebes, Sennefer and those of his wife Sentnay were found, too.
