New discoveries in the tomb of Khety II at Asyut

At the necropolis of Assiut, rock-cut tombs were mapped and recorded - particularly Tomb III of Iti-ibi, tomb IV of Khety II and Tomb V of Khety I. Khety II governed as a nomarch of the 13th Upper Egyptian noem during th 10th Dynasty and served under King Merikare. The tomb was first recorded by the French expedition to Egypt in 1799 and the epigraphic documentation of the autobiographical inscription was conducted by F.L. Griffith in 1889, and later revised by Pierre Montet in 1935.