Tomb KV36 is the burial place of the noble Maiherpri of the Eighteenth Dynasty in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.

[1] All the objects found were taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo where they were published in the Catalogue General (short: CG).

Thieves targeted easily recyclable objects such as clothing and fabric, jewellery, metal vessels, and cosmetics.

[6] Robbers may have also stolen furniture such as boxes, chests and beds as these were absent from the KV36 but found in more intact contemporary tombs;[7] they seem to have stashed a small box inscribed for Maiherpri and containing two leather loincloths in a cleft above KV36, which was discovered on 26 February 1903 by Howard Carter during his clearance of the area around the tomb.

[10] The then-director of the Antiquities Service focused his work in the southern Valley of the Kings, opening test pits or trenches to the bedrock (sondage) in likely-looking locations.

[11][12] A map of the valley annotated by him indicates approximately 15 test excavations were sunk in the general vicinity of KV36 prior to its discovery.

The rest of the space was strewn with various objects and personal belongings including ceramic and alabaster vessels, archery equipment, and two dog collars.

[11][19] In 2004, a collection of his notes and photographs preserved in the University of Milan, Italy and the Institut de France, Paris were published.

Prior to this, the only records available of the tomb's discovery and arrangement of its contents was an account written in 1900 by Georg Schweinfurth[20] who visited the tomb during its clearance, and a list of contents published in 1902 by Georges Daressy[21] in a volume of Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.

The outermost (CG 24001) is a 2.81 metres (9.2 ft) long rectangular sarcophagus made of black-painted wood with gilded inscriptions and decoration.

[33] There is a third anthropoid coffin (CG 24003) made of untreated wood with gilded inscriptions, which was found overturned next to the sarcophagus with its lid placed next to the box.

[36] The mask completely covers his head and shoulders and is similar in style to that of Hatnofer, the mother of Senenmut, buried in the reign of Hatshepsut.

He noted that the method of bandaging was entirely horizontal strips with minimal padding; he estimated the body was wrapped in 60 layers of fabric.

Daressy considered his dark skin tone to be unchanged by embalming, identifying him as Upper Egyptian or Nubian.