The treasures of Toya and Yuya

Toya and Yuya, his parents, are Queen T and grandfathers of King Akhenaten

The tomb of Yuya was found in 1907 in the Valley of the Kings in Thebes in Cemetery No. 46 by Theodore Davis and was attended by Maspero, who was the director of the Egyptian Museum, and Yuya’s mummy was found in three coffins, one inside the other, in addition to the coffin of his wife, Toya

The archaeological group of Tuya and Yuya contains 214 pieces of the mummy of Toya and Yuya and their coffins. It also included the Yuya Papyrus, which includes spells from the Book of the Dead in the corridor of the cemetery and is 20 meters long. Decorated with golden decoration and the outer rectangular sarcophagus by Yuya

Yuya’s origins go back to Akhmim (Sohag), where he belonged to the nobility and were one of the men of the army and his work as a priest of “Min”, the main deity in Akhmim. Yuya held several important positions in the palace, such as the supervisor of horses, as his title might indicate “the father of God.” To the distinguished course as the king’s father-in-law

Toya bore many religious titles and the title of “the Queen’s mother, the King’s great wife”, a title she cherished and repeatedly recorded on her coffins and collections. Both Yuya and Tuya had a high position, as evidenced by their cemetery in the Valley of the Kings in the western mainland in Luxor. This place was designated only. For the tombs of the kings

The cemetery included the treasures of Yuya and Toya cemetery, relics that express daily life, such as the war wheel for Yuya and the wonderful funerary furniture of beds, chairs, and boxes for preserving jewellery made of gilded wood and inlaid with faience, ivory, and ebony, in addition to vessels of alabaster and coloured limestone.

It is not less valuable than the tomb of Tutankhamun, but unfortunately, it began to be published scientifically. At the beginning of the first scientific war, it was not as famous as the tomb of Tutankhamun.