KV45

Tomb KV45 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was originally used for the burial of the noble Userhet of the Eighteenth Dynasty and was reused by Merenkhons and an unknown woman in the Twenty-second Dynasty. The tomb was discovered and excavated by Howard Carter in 1902, in his role as Chief Inspector of Antiquities, on behalf of Theodore M. Davis. The tomb was later re-investigated by Donald P. Ryan of the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings Project in 1991 and 2005.

==Location and discovery== KV45 is located in a small wadi that runs east from the main valley and is adjacent to KV44. The tomb was discovered in February 1902 in the course of excavations sponsored by the American millionaire Theodore Davis. In the January Gaston Maspero and Carter had identified promising locations for exploration in the main valley. Having encountered nothing in the spans between KV2 and KV7, and the mouth of the small valley and KV5, excavation shifted to clearing the small valley itself. Running a trench the entire width of the valley excavation advanced up the valley and in the vicinity of KV28 and next to KV44, which was investigated the previous year, an intact tomb was discovered. The burial was opened on 25 February 1902 when Davis returned from Aswan.