Mariette in 1870 had discovered Horemheb’s tomb and describe two jambs and two column drums (two drums are in the Museum in Cairo, the jambs have not been found).
The excavating works weren’t completed and the sand covered the tomb. At the end of the century the thieves found it and removed the bas-relief on the walls and other fragment which are now in the various museums of the world. Five wall slabs in limestone with beautiful bas-relief are in the Civic Museum in Bologna. It is a big tomb with a superstructure of 60 x 20 meters. Preceded by a court, a pier gives access to a second peristilio court, then to a chamber called “of the statues”, and finally to a third peristilio court that leads to three chopels. Two pits lead to two underground funeral apartments. The descovery of this tomb is of great historical and artistical importance. The technique with which the bas-relief were made indicates a compromise between the refined art of Amenofi’s III epoch and the realism of the armaniana epoch.