Turin Papyrus No. 1923 mentions that he and the others were not buried until fully sixteen months after they died (much longer than the usual seventy days or so), and only after new tombs had been dug just for them, which seems suspicious. Additionally, the men who finally buried them were given a month’s leave “at the expense of the Pharaoh” immediately afterward, and the Valley of the Kings was apparently closed to visitors for six months; this may have been the world’s first textually attested quarantine.54
