coffin upon Belzoni's discovery of the tomb, but rather in the royal cache DB320 amongst 36 other mummies. His coffin (perhaps the inner or secondary coffin) was heavily damaged, as was his mummy. It's been postulated that priests of numerous dynasties attempted restorations of both his tomb and his coffin, but was finally moved in the Year 11 of Shoshenq I where he was finally moved to cache DB320. Archaeology and conservation It was first discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni on 16 October 1817. Upon entering the tomb, Belzoni found the wall paintings in excellent condition with the paint on the walls still looking fresh, and some of the artists' paints and brushes still on the floor. The tomb became known as the "Apis tomb" because when Giovanni Belzoni found the tomb a mummified bull found in a side room off the burial hall. The outer layer of the sarcophagus of Seti I, removed on behalf of the British consul Henry Salt, is located in the Sir John Soane's Museum in London since 1824. Jean-François Champollion, translator of the Rosetta Stone, removed a wall panel of 2.26 x 1.05 m (7.41 x 3.44 ft) in a corridor with mirror-image scenes during his 1828–29 expedition. Other elements were removed by his companion Rossellini or by Karl Richard Lepsius in the German expedition of 1845. The scenes are now in the collections of the Louvre in Paris, the Egyptian Museum in Florence, the Neues Museum in Berlin. A number of walls in the tomb have collapsed or cracked due to excavations in the late 1950s and early 1960s causing significant changes in the moisture levels in the surrounding rocks. Facsimiles of two rooms from the tomb, the Hall of Beauties and Pillared Hall J, were made by Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation in 2017. Gallery References Reeves, N. & Wilkinson, R. H. The Complete Valley of the Kings, 1996, Thames and Hudson, London. Siliotti, A., Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples 1996, A.A. Gaddis, Cairo. Belzoni, Giovanni, Narratives of the operations and recent discoveries in Egypt and Nubia:... 1820 External links Theban Mapping Project: KV17 - Includes description, images, and plans of the tomb. 360° Photosphere virtual visit of Seti I Tomb in the Kings' Valley 1817 archaeological discoveries Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century BC Valley of the Kings