Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced that after weeks of restoration work, a group of pieces of wood found inside a jar discovered in KV63 have proven to be the remains of a mummification bed. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that when members of the Egyptian-American archaeological mission working in the tomb found the pieces, they did not know what they were or what their function might have been. Hawass added that with the help of Egyptian conservator Amani Nashed, the team was finally able to reassemble the pieces to form a bed of the type used in the ancient Egyptian mummification process.

A team led by Dr. Otto Schaden, discovered KV63 in 2005. It contained 28 clay jars and seven coffins, along with mummification materials including linen and resin. KV63 is believed to have been not a tomb for an individual, but a storeroom for materials and objects used in the mummification process.