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Theodore Montgomery Davis was born in Springfield, New York in 1838.
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Theodore M. Davis’s discovery of the tomb of Horemheb (Harmhabi) on February 22, 1908 was his last great find in the Valley of the Kings - a vast, finely cut tomb containing the king’s superb hardstone sarcophagus, a mass of fragmented burial furniture and abundant skeletal remains. The tomb’s wall decorations, in various stages of completion, are among the finest in Egypt. The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou was Davis’s swansong, published three years before his death. Besides his report on the Horemheb find, it includes an account of what Davis supposed - mistakenly - to be the destroyed burial of Tutankhamun (Touatânkhamanou). The volume is abundantly illustrated with photographs and watercolour sketches of the tomb, its decorated walls and the objects found, together with some of the best views of the Valley of the Kings ever taken
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On January 6, 1907 a mysterious tomb was uncovered in the Valley of the Kings by English archaeologist Edward R. Ayrton, digging on behalf of Theodore M. Davis. Initially identified as the burial of Amenophis III's queen, Tiye (Tîyi), on the basis of a spectacular gilded shrine which formed part of the burial equipment, the body itself was later recognized as that of a man buried in a coffin adapted for the use of an Amarna-period pharaoh. Was this the mummy of Akhenaten himself, as some at the time believed? Or the body of Akhenaten's mysterious co-regent, Smenkhkare? Almost a century later, Tomb 55 (as it is now generally known) continues to baffle archaeologist and Egyptologist alike. The Tomb of Queen Tîyi, which first appeared in 1910, was Davis's official account of the enigmatic Tomb 55 discovery, and remains a crucial source both for the Amarna period and for Valley of the Kings studies generally. It is here republished with Davis's equally fundamental The Tomb of Siphtah, which details the excavator's discoveries of 1905-7 - among them the extraordinary ‘animal tombs’ and the ‘Gold Tomb’, one of the greatest caches of 19th Dynasty jewelry ever found.
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( In a rare gesture of feminine ambition, Queen Hatshepsu...)
In a rare gesture of feminine ambition, Queen Hatshepsut (Hatshopsitu) assumed the throne of Egypt shortly after the death of her husband, Tuthmosis II, holding on to power for two decades until 1458 BC. As pharaoh, she would prepare a burial for herself in the Valley of the Kings; and this extraordinary spiral of a tomb was first cleared by Howard Carter for Theodore M. Davis between 1903 and 1904. Though officially emptied in antiquity, the tomb contained still many fragments of the burial, and two superb sarcophagi prepared both for the queen herself and for her father, Tuthmosis I. "The Tomb of Hatshopsitu", first published in 1906, is Davis's official account of this important work, with contributions on the historical background from Edouard Naville, and on the tomb's excavation and finds by Carter himself, who was also responsible for the plates.
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Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tuthmosis (Thoutmôsis) IV, sponsored by Theodore M. Davis, initiated a decade of immensely fruitful work in the Valley of the Kings. The find was a rich and informative one. Undisturbed since the removal of the king’s mummy around 1000 BC, the tomb’s elegant chambers were literally strewn with antiquities -- shabti-figures, model vessels, ritual equipment, textiles, throne panels, and a chariot. In the burial chamber itself stood the king’s magnificent quartzite sarcophagus, its painted decoration as fresh as in antiquity. "The Tomb of Thoutmôsis IV" was first published in 1904. Incorporating an historical essay on the king’s reign by Gaston Maspero, a description of the work and illustrated catalogue of the finds by Carter and Percy E. Newberry, and a paper on the king’s mummy by Grafton Elliot Smith, it represents Davis’s full, official report on the discovery.
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Theodore Montgomery Davis was born in Springfield, New York in 1838.
After a career in the law and business, he moved to Newport, Rhode Island in 1882 where he built a mansion known as "The Reef" (later "The Bells") on Ocean Avenue, on property which is now Brenton Point State Park. Although married, Davis had a live-in mistress, Emma Andrews, from 1887 until his death. He spent his winters in Europe and on digs in Egypt (from 1900).
In the winter of 1915 he did not go to Egypt for health reasons and instead rented the Florida home of William Jennings Bryan, then Secretary of State.
He died there in late February of that year. Starting in 1902 Davis acted as private sponsor for the Antiquities Service.
Because of the success of this first season, which included the discovery of KV45 (tomb of Userhet) and a box containing leather loincloths from above KV36 (tomb of Maiherpri), this sponsorship was renewed each year until 1905. During this period excavations were conducted in his name by the inspector-general of antiquities for Upper Egypt (between 1902 and 1904, Howard Carter and for the 1904-1905 season James East Quibell).
In 1905 Arthur Weigall, as new inspector-general, persuaded Davis to sign a new concession for work in the Valley and to employ his own archaeologist.
Under these new conditions excavations were conducted by Edward R. Ayrton (1905-1908), East. Harold Jones (1908-1911) and Harry Burton (1912-1914). But by 1913, Davis had become disillusioned with the efforts that had not yielded an intact royal tomb, and began to share the belief that the valley had been exhausted. During the 1913-1914 season he finally gave up the concession to excavate in the Valley of the Kings.
The concession then passed on to Lord Carnarvon.
Although excavation commenced during the 1914-1915 season, the concession was not formally signed until 1915. The excavations carried out under Davis"s sponsorship are among the most important ever undertaken in the valley: in the course of 12 years about 30 tombs were discovered and/or cleared in his name, the best known among them are KV46 (tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu), KV55 (the Amarna cache), KV57 (tomb of Horemheb) and KV54 (Tutankhamun embalming cache).
With Carter"s discovery of KV62, Tutankhamun"s tomb, in 1922 Davis"s opinion that the "valley had been exhausted", was proved wrong. Burton later recalled that when Davis terminated his last excavation in the valley, out of fear of undercutting nearby tombs and pathways, he was only two metres away from discovering the entrance to KV62.
List of discoveries and excavations
1902: KV45
1903: KV20, KV43, KV60
1905: KV2, KV19, KV22, KV46, KV47, KV53
1906: KV48, KV49, KV50, KV51, KV52
1907: KV10, KV54, KV55
1908: KV56, KV57
1909: KV58
1910: KV61
1912: KV3
1913: KV7
Davis was portrayed by William Hope in the 2005 British Broadcasting Corporation docudrama Egypt.
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(Excerpt from The Tomb of Siphtah; The Monkey Tomb and the...)
(On January 6, 1907 a mysterious tomb was uncovered in the...)
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(Theodore M. Davis’s discovery of the tomb of Horemheb (Ha...)