The Antechamber was a scene of chaos, being at least twice disturbed by robbers, it contained 600-700 objects, we can only imagine how many were their before the robbers.  But still Carter was in awe....

' Gradually the scene grew clearer, and we could pick out individual objects.  First, right opposite us-we had been conscious of them all the while, but refused to believe in them-were these great gilt couches, their sides carved in the form of monstrous animals, curiously attenuated in body, as they had to be to serve their purpose, but with heads of startling realism.  Uncanny beasts enough to look upon at any time: seen as we saw them, brilliant gilded surfaces picked out of the darkness by our electric torch, as though by limelight, their heads throwing grotesque distorted shadows on the wall behind them, they were almost terrifying.  Next, on the right, two statues caught and held our attention; two life sized figures of a king in black, facing each other like sentinels, gold kilted, gold sandalled, armed with mace and staff, the protective sacred cobra upon their foreheads.

' These were the dominant objects that caught the eye at first.  Between them , around them, piled on top of them, there were countless others-exquisitely painted and inlaid caskets; alabaster vases, some beautifully carved in openwork designs;strange black shrines, from the open door of one a great gilt snake peering out;bouquets of flowers or leaves; beds; chairs beautifully carved; a golden inlaid throne; a heap of curious white oviform boxes; staves of all shapes and designs; beneath our eyes, on the very threshold of the chamber, a beautiful lotiform cup of translucent alabaster; on the left a confused pile of overturned chariots, glistening with gold and inlay; and peeping from behind them another portrait of a king'

'Such were some of the objects that lay before us.....' -Howard Carter

Everything in the Antechamber was removed except for the two guardian statues which were removed at the start of the next season's work.