Theodore Davis Egyptologist & Emma Buttles Andrews mistress & Travelling Companion, who recorded all Davis' discoveries in her Diaries

After her husband was admitted to a mental hospital, and his subsequent death,  Emma Buttles Andrews became the mistress and travelling companion to the millionaire Lawyer and archaeologist Theodore M. Davis, Emma shared Davis' enthusiasm for Ancient Egypt, and together they made a total of 17 trips along the Nile River aboard his yacht the Bedawin, Emma sat in the blazing sun many times where she  created sketches and drawings of Davis' excavations, and wrote in her diaries the excitement they both shared on making a discovery. Unfortunately her diaries were not published

During the  period from 1902- 1913 about 30 tombs were discovered under Theodores sponsorship, the most well known was the discovery of the  tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu, the parents of Queen Tiye, principal wife of Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of Tutankhamun. Despite robberies in antiquity, the undecorated tomb preserved a great deal of its original contents including chests, beds, chairs, a chariot, and numerous storage jars. Additionally, the riffled but undamaged mummies of Yuya and his wife Tjuyu were found within their disturbed coffin sets. Prior to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, this was considered to be one of the greatest discoveries in Egyptology. The tomb was excavated in February 1905

By 1913, Davis was convinced that either KV54, the Tutankhamun embalming cache, or KV57, Horemheb's tomb, were in fact the tomb of King Tutankhamun. In the 1912 site report, he stated, 'I fear the Valley of the Tombs is now exhausted.' How wrong he was,  as his concession then passed on to Lord Carnarvon who offered the British archaeologist Howard Carter his sponsorship. Theodore Davis had only been working two meters away from discovering the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb KV62. . In Emma's diaries from those trips researchers are offered rare glimpses into her work with Davis in Egypt. They left Egypt in 1913 to settle back in the United States. Davis died in 1915 and Andrews died in January 1922.

After World War I, in 1918 Carter began an intensive search for the tomb of Tutankhamun, and after six years of searching Lord Carnarvon had finally given up the search to find the tomb of Tutankhamun, and he told Carter he would not continue to finance the work. Carter pleaded with him to reconsider and so Carnarvon agreed to one last season. On Nov 4th 1922 Carters young water boy Hussein Rasoul, tripped over a stone and he told Carter who immediately  instructed the workmen to dig in this area, and to their ecstatic thrill they had discovered the first step to the tomb of Tutankhamun, looking at this young water boy, it reminds us that Tutankhamun was only 9 years old when he became king