Ramos may have followed his king to the new capital, Akhetaton ("The Horizon of the Aten"), which was built from scratch at a previously uninhabited site on the Nile's east bank some 190 miles north of Thebes. If he made himself another tomb nearer to Akhetaton, it would have been destroyed in the general destruction of everything that had to do with Akhenaton when the worship of Aten was restored under Tutankhamon, Ay, and Horemheb.
The present name of Akhetaton's site is Tel el-Amarna, a name that is best known for the "Amarna Letters," a cache of cuneiform tablets containing, inter alia, correspondance of Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamen with kings in Palestine, Syria, and Anatolia. Written in Assyrian, Hurrian, Hittite, and Akkadian, they covered a period of about 30 years.
Ramos' tomb lies under a present-day village, which has electricity but is forbidden running water and sewage because of danger to the tomb below.
The exquisite raised reliefs (below) on the tomb's walls testify to the status of its prospective inhabitant, as does the depiction of the funeral procession with mourning women in the center.
