Khaemwaset was probably the oldest of Ramses 111 sons that he buried in the Valley of the Queens, here he created a beautiful tomb for Khaemwaset who had died young. Among his royal titles Khaemwaset held the position of Fan bearer to the right of the King, 'Sem priest' Priest of Ptah at Memphis, In the tomb, Ramses guides his son prince khaemwaset through the afterlife introducing him to the Gods, in this photgraph the fan he carries in this scene in the tomb is a short-handled khu fan with a single ostrich feather, symbolically it means "protect," and royal guards may have carried it for this reason. Isis Nephthys or Horus are seen to wave the fan over the corpse of Osiris in many of the tombs, by doing this they were offering him 'the breath of life' in order to revive him.
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