[See Images of the Mummies' Tomb and Egypt's Valley of the Kings] You may like 'Not enough survives to read the king's name': Tomb discovered of unknown ancient Egyptian pharaoh 'Major' ancient ...

The scattered remains within the tomb consist of fragments of wood, cartonnage, and mummy bandages and linen cloths. Tomb KV 40 at the Valley of the Kings was plundered several times and damaged ...

to the west of the Valley of the Kings. And because this tomb was flooded shortly after Thutmose II's burial, his mummy and the majority of his grave goods were removed by ancient officials and ...

The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on the Nile's ... KV 63 had no mummy but housed sarcophagi, pottery, linens, flowers, and other materials.

The curse of the mummy. On November 4, 1922, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, British Egyptologist Howard Carter stumbled across a crumbling step, half hidden beneath the debris from the tomb of ...

[See Images of the Mummies' Tomb and Egypt's Valley of the Kings] One of those newly studied tombs is KV 40. From the surface, the only hint of a burial chamber was a depression in the ground.