KV31

The tomb consists of a vertical shaft that leads to a chamber with two further rooms opening from it. Most of the tomb is cut from good quality limestone bedrock; the first chamber is partly cut from bedrock and partly from conglomerate. The shaft is well cut and descends 5 metres (16 ft) through accumulated conglomerate and bedrock.

The tomb was likely one of two, the other being KV30, excavated in 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni on behalf of the Second Earl Belmore. If this is correct, it may be the place of origin of a stone sarcophagus donated by Belmore to the British Museum. It was numbered by Victor Loret in 1898, but no excavation is known.

In January 2010 the University of Basel Kings' Valley Project began excavating the tomb. The fill within the shaft contained modern rubbish above limestone chips, sand and rocky debris, and three pots containing Nile mud used for sealing the door of the tomb were found at the bottom. The main chamber and its two adjoining rooms were filled with debris to a depth of at least 1 metre (3.3 ft). The tomb had clearly been thoroughly robbed in the past, as pieces of broken funerary items were scattered around. A metal door was installed over the shaft at the end of the excavation to protect the tomb, and it was mapped in the 2010 and 2011 seasons.