A study published in PLOS.One attempt to find the owner of these mummified legs with the observations indicating it to be of Queen Nefertari, the most beloved wife of the pharaoh Ramses II.

The tomb of his principal wife Nefertari, also at Thebes, is one of the best-preserved royal tombs. Rameses reasserted Egyptian control over the Levant in the east and Nubia to the south.