Only recently has further excavation been attempted.

CORRIDOR B Stepping through a gate below a lintel with a brightly painted solar disk, and between figures of the goddess Ma’at seated on a basket, one enters a 15 meter (49 foot) long corridor whose walls are covered with finely executed texts and scenes. At the beginning of the left wall, Siptah stands with Ra-Harakhty, their figures painted against a yellow background. The remainder of the wall has a white background. First comes the standard opening scene of the Litany of Ra, and then the text of the Litany, which continues on the right wall. All of the Litany except the cartouches is done in painted sunk relief.

CORRIDOR C The Litany of Ra continues on both walls of this corridor with seventy-four figures, manifestations of the solar deity, standing in a long row at the top of the wall. At the end of each wall are scenes from chapter 151 of the Book of the Dead. Anubis stands beside a mummy lying on a bed with lion’s heads and paws. Above, the Anubis jackal is flanked by figures of Isis and Nephthys. CORRIDOR D Virtually all of the decoration in this chamber has gone. Originally, the walls were covered with scenes and texts from the fourth and fifth hours of the Imydwat. On the right thickness of the gate leading into chamber E, at the top of the column of text, note a very finely drawn bull, in red and black, that stands with its head lowered as if preparing to charge.

CHAMBER E AND BEYOND The remainder of the tomb has almost no preserved decoration. The poor quality of the stone, its irregular carving, and the dim lighting that has recently been installed here give the impression of walking down a mineshaft or into the dungeon of a decaying castle. In pillared CHAMBER F there are traces of red ink in the middle of the right wall outlining what was intended to have been a gate into a side chamber, but it was never cut. In the short corridor immediately before the burial chamber, a small side passage, perhaps intended to lead into a side chamber or to be a part of the burial chamber, broke into another tomb, KV 32, and work was therefore abandoned. Siptah’s red granite sarcophagus still stands in the burial chamber. His mummy, which shows that he suffered from poliomyelitis or clubfoot, was found in the cache of mummies uncovered in 1898 in the tomb of Amenhetep II.
 

From" The Illustrated Guide to Luxor" by kent R.Weeks ,published by the American University in Cairo Press. Copyright © 2005 White Star S.p.a