KV44

KV44 is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. It lies near KV28 and next to KV45, in a small side wadi that runs east from the main valley. The tomb consists of a shaft 5.5 metres (18 ft) deep ending in a single chamber, whose doorway was securely, if roughly, sealed. The original cutting is dated to the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Howard Carter opened it on 26 January 1901, after two days of excavation. The chamber was partly filled with water-washed earth. On top of the fill sat three wooden coffins, draped in floral wreaths, which held three intact Twenty-second Dynasty burials. One contained the mummy of Iuf'a, another a chantress identified by Porter and Moss as Keramama, and the third the mummy of Tentkeresherit, fitted with red leather mummy braces stamped with the cartouche of Osorkon I.

These were not the original occupants. Carter noted that the room was a fifth full of debris amongst which were remains of earlier mummies without either coffins or funeral furniture. Several bee nests on the ceiling showed that the tomb had stood open for some time. In 1991 the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings Project, headed by Donald P. Ryan, re-investigated it and recovered the remains of seven individuals, two of them young women and three children, including one two year-old. Small finds included pottery fragments and a blue cylinder bead. The project resumed in 2005 and found that water had entered several tombs, likely during the 1994 flood events.

The intended occupants are not known. Elizabeth Thomas proposed a tomb for Anen, the brother of Tiye, the Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III, based on the clustering of late Eighteenth Dynasty tombs here. However, Ryan's excavations found no material later than the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty, so there is no archaeological evidence for the burial of Anen in KV44.

KV44 is situated near KV28 and next to KV45 in a small side wadi that runs east from the main valley. The location of the tomb was already known in Western Thebes some time before late January 1901 and was opened by Howard Carter on 26 January 1901 after two days of excavation. The tomb consists of a shaft 5.5 metres (18 ft) deep ending in a single chamber. The doorway to the room was securely, if roughly, sealed.