Visitors to the tombs of the kings at Thebes rarely suspect they will be seeing Egypt's pharaonic dead. However, there are several mummies remaining in the Biban al Molouk, including the young prince in the tomb of Thutmose IV, possibly the prince Amenemhet.
When the prince was standing up, apparently to the amusement of the ancient robbers who had entered the tomb before the priests came to remove the mummy of the king. These priests left the prince in his side room and sealed the tomb. The tomb was never entered again until it was found by Howard Carter.
There are, of course, the two ladies in tomb KV21, but they are not on view, and the tomb is inaccessible. Yes, King Tut is accessible, but only to 400 viewers a day, and KV 35 has a boy and a mummy of great controversy. But few are expecting a mummy in the tomb of the nineteenth dynasty King Seti II. Nothing is known as to whom he is, but be for certain he was of importance in life, perhaps a Vizier or a Son of Kush.
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