Qualla: Tomb of Yuya and Thuya https://qualla.com/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tomb of Yuya and Thuya https://qualla.com/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya Tomb of Yuya and Thuya: Introduction https://qualla.com/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.5. The candles were almost useless. On the morning of 13 February 1905, Theodore Davis, Gaston Maspero and Arthur Weigall pulled down the top of a sealed doorway and climbed into a chamber so dark and so stiflingly hot that, as Davis put it, they "could see nothing except the glitter of gold." Davis was so dazzled that he nearly touched his candle flame to a coffin coated in black, flammable resin, and the three men beat a hasty retreat before they set the whole find ablaze. When they returned with electric lights, they saw what they had: a non-royal couple's tomb, packed with treasure, the richest and best-preserved burial yet discovered in the Valley of the Kings. It would hold that title until a young king named Tutankhamun was found seventeen years later.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tomb of Yuya and Thuya: The Most Unpromising Spot https://qualla.com/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya/ Photo credit Samoka ahmed, CC BY-SA 4.0. No one expected anything here. The site was a narrow gap between two known tombs, KV3 and KV4, buried under a great bank of stone chips that looked entirely untouched. Davis called the location "most unpromising" and admitted he dug it mainly for the satisfaction of knowing the w...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-the-most-unpromising-spot.mp3 0:06 2 full Tomb of Yuya and Thuya: Parents of a Queen https://qualla.com/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya/ Photo credit Zezinho68, CC BY-SA 4.0. Yuya and Thuya were not royalty. They came from Akhmim in Upper Egypt and held priestly titles tied to the local god Min. What lifted them into the Valley of the Kings was their daughter. Tiye became the Great Royal Wife of the powerful pharaoh Amenhotep III, which made this elde...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-parents-of-a-queen.mp3 0:06 3 full Tomb of Yuya and Thuya: The Chariot and the Empress https://qualla.com/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya/ Photo credit Merytat3n, CC BY-SA 4.0. Among the most astonishing survivals was Yuya's chariot, found almost perfect: a thin wooden body decorated in gilded plaster with a tree of life and browsing goats, its red leather tyres barely worn, suggesting it had rolled only once, in the funeral procession. The tomb's every...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya-the-chariot-and-the-empress.mp3 0:06 4 full Tomb of Yuya and Thuya: Faces of the Embalmer's Art https://qualla.com/tomb-of-yuya-and-thuya/ Photo credit CC0. Robbers had been here in antiquity, probably more than once, and they had disturbed both bodies, unwrapping torsos in search of jewelry and snapping a gold-and-lapis necklace from behind Yuya's neck. Yet they left the couple themselves remarkably intact, and someone in ancient ti...

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