Aidan Dodson

So when Amarna is shut down as the capital city, they evacuate the royal tomb.

And three of the mummies which were in that royal tomb were moved to KV55.

Akhenaten... And is that the girls?

No, we don't know where the girls... We assume the girls went to another tomb in the same area of the Valley of the Kings.

But KV55 certainly had Akhenaten in it originally, Queen Ti, his mother, and the third individual.

And Ti and Akhenaten were both removed from the tomb at a later date.

leaving one body behind, which, as far as I'm concerned, is Smenkhare, who was Akhenaten's short-lived co-ruler around about year 13, 14.

It's either directly following the death of Tutankhamun or directly following the death of Ai, his immediate successor.

And we don't know.

We know this is all well underway once you get significantly beyond that.

But the exact point... But I don't think anything will happen before Tutankhamun dies.

Because while you're not going to start... He's the same family.

And also, Ai may actually have been...

his father, Akhenaten's father-in-law, so possibly not.

But certainly once you get into the reign of Horemheb, that's definitely happening.

But there's been lots of debate over exactly when KB 55 is desecrated.

Some people argued within weeks of Tutankhamun's death.

but others have suggested it could be significantly later.

And unfortunately, the archaeological evidence, which is all to do with flood debris in the Vale of the Kings, is there's been, it seemed it was all made clear, and then somebody pointed out some major methodological errors in the assessment.

So, again, it's going to be somewhere within five years, probably, of Tutankhamun's death, but whether it's right on his death or a little bit later on, we simply don't know at the moment.