Queen Nefertari's tomb was buried in QV66 in the Valley of the Queens. The decorations in her tomb are considered some of the most beautiful of the entire necropolis. The tomb was robbed in antiquity, but some items (shabtis etc) were found by Schiaparelli.
The tomb was the focus of major restoration work done by the Getty foundation. Much damage had been done to the once beautiful decorations by seeping water and salt. The tomb is now closed to the public.
The tomb of Queen Nefertari is considered the most beautiful in the Valley of the Queens, and is on the whole worthy of her position in history was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1904 and many specialists. Due to the countless and serious problems affecting its wonderful paintings, the tomb was closed to the public in the 1950s, and until 1986, when its real restoration works began, preceded by multidisciplinary studies carried out by a group of international scientists. The decorative motifs on walls and ceilings are mythological and are concerned with life in the netherworld, meetings with gods, deities, genii and monsters