Overview
- The tomb, which was announced Sunday, July 13, contains inscriptions that identify the owner as Paser and shows wall paintings of him making offerings and seated with his wife.
- Experts date the art and inscriptions to the Ramesside or New Kingdom period, roughly 3,000 years ago, placing the burial in the era of dynasties XIX–XX.
- Field reports describe a typical New Kingdom private tomb layout with an outer courtyard, a T‑shaped rock chapel, subterranean funerary chambers, a mudbrick mastaba for a stela, and a ramped staircase.
- Archaeologists from Leiden University, working in the Theban Necropolis since 2018, will continue detailed documentation and analysis to catalogue objects, read inscriptions, and check for additional interments.
- Egypt’s antiquities authorities have not set a date for public access and are balancing conservation, further study, and state efforts to promote heritage and tourism in decisions about display.