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Polz in his 2007 book, places [[Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef]] as a short-lived king between the reigns of Nubkheperre Intef and [[Senakhtenre Ahmose|Senakhtenre]]--the first ruler of the Ahmoside family of kings.<ref>Polz, Der Beginn des Neuen Reichs, p.50</ref>
==Sírja==
Nubkheperre Intef's tomb was originally penetrated by tomb robbers in 1827 but some of its treasures made it into the hands of Western collectors; his unique rishi style coffin was purchased by the British Museum from the [[Henry Salt]] collection where its catalogue number is EA 6652.<ref>[http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/c/coffin_of_king_nubkheperra_int.aspx Coffin of King Nubkheperra Intef]</ref> His tomb was later found by early Egyptologists around 1881 but records of its location was lost again until it was rediscovered in 2001 by German scholars.
==Tomb rediscovery==
[[File:17th Dynasty Crown (Nubkheperre Intef).jpg|thumb|right|225px|A royal crown believed to have originated from Nubkheperre Intef's Dra' Abu el-Naga' tomb now located in the [[Rijksmuseum van Oudheden]] of the Netherlands.]]
Nubheperré Antef sírjába 1827-ben rablók hatoltak be, a leletek közül némelyik nyugati gyűjtők kezébe került. [[Risi]] stílusú koporsóját [[Henry Salt]]tól vásárolta meg a [[British Museum]], katalógusszáma EA 6652.<ref>[http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/c/coffin_of_king_nubkheperra_int.aspx Coffin of King Nubkheperra Intef]</ref> A sírt 1881 körül korai egyiptológusok ismét felfedezték, de helye ezután is a feledésbe merült, mígnem 2001-ben a [[Daniel Polz]], a [[Német Régészeti Intézet]] igazgatóhelyettese vezette kutatócsoport rábukkant. A sírt vályogfal vette körül, a fal által körülvett területen kisméretű vályogtégla-piramis maradványait találták meg. Ez előtt nyílik a mély veremsír, előtte a fáraó életnagyságú homokkő szobrának feje feküdt. A sírkomplexum falán kívül egy magánszemély kis temetkezési kápolnáját találták meg, a feliratok alapján a kápolna tulajdonosa Teti, a király kancellárja vagy kincstárnoka. Ennek az építménynek a falán szerepelt Nubheperré Antef neve.
Nubkheperre Intef's tomb was rediscovered by Daniel Polz, the deputy director of the [[German Archaeological Institute]] in 2001. A [[Reuters]] report dated 29 June 2001 concerning the discovery of his royal tomb (see 'Egyptian royal tomb discovered.') states:
: "In a [historic] first, a joint team of German and Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed a royal tomb dating back to the 17th Dynasty which likely belonged to a king whose great-grandsons swept out foreign rulers and paved the way for the New Kingdom - Ancient Egypt's "Golden Age". The German Institute of Archaeology in Cairo (DAI), in announcing the find, said they are convinced the 3500-year-old tomb belonged to '''Nub-Kheper-Ra Intef, a monarch of the late 17th Dynasty'''. A time of political turmoil and confusion, the 17th Dynasty has failed to provide archaeologists with a royal tomb for study-until now....The tomb is located across the Nile from modern-day Luxor in the northern portion of the Theban necropolis, at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. The area, referred to as [[Dra' Abu el-Naga']], has long been felt to be the burial place of kings and private individuals of the 17th and early 18th dynasties.
: According to archaeologists, the "remnants of the tomb consist of the lower part of a small mud-brick pyramid surrounded by an enclosure wall, also built of mud bricks." In front of the pyramid lies a burial shaft where the toppled head of a life-size royal sandstone statue of the pharaoh was found. The pyramid-complex and the burial shaft is unequivocally that of Nub-Kheper-Ra Intef, according to Dr Daniel Polz, the lead excavator and deputy director of [[German Archaeological Institute|DAI]].
: Other discoveries included "a small funerary chapel of a private individual" adjacent to the pyramid, but outside the enclosure wall. The inner walls of the chapel were decorated with depictions of its owner, as well as his name and titles. According to these inscriptions the tomb owner, Teti, was a "treasurer" or "chancellor" of the king. On one of the walls, there remains '''a large cartouche''' (the royal name-ring) showing the name of king '''Nub-Kheper-Ra Intef'''. The 17th Dynasty at the end of the Second Intermediate Period - the era between the Middle and New Kingdoms - was characterized by the rule of the Hyksos, foreign invaders of an Asiatic origin who ruled in the northern part of Egypt contemporaneously with the kings of the 17th Dynasty in Thebes.
: Following numerous military campaigns against them, the Hyksos rulers were eventually expelled from Egypt by [[Kamose]], the last king of the 17th Dynasty and his brother, [[Ahmose I|Ahmose]], the first king of the 18th Dynasty which saw a unified Egypt rise to unprecedented wealth and power. It is believed that Nub-Kheper-Ra Intef, one of the immediate predecessors of Kamose and Ahmose, could actually have been their great-grandfather. Experts said the discovery of King Nub-Kheper-Ra Intef's tomb, the first find of a royal tomb from the 17th Dynasty, along with its location, architecture and contents, could shed new light on the hitherto unknown burials of those Egyptian kings who laid the foundations of Egypt's "Golden Age" - the New Kingdom.
: [The] German archaeologist Polz and his team were led to the tomb by information obtained from a 3000-year-old papyrus and the works of an American archaeologist who made reference to the tomb, but never found it himself. The papyrus mentioned an attempt by robbers to plunder the royal tomb by digging a tunnel from another tomb belonging to a private individual. The robbers, however, failed to reach the royal tomb. Then in the 19th Century, another group of robbers found the royal tomb, removed the golden casket and sold it without disclosing where they found it-the casket eventually ended up in the British Museum in London.
: Polz and his team also found what appeared to be evidence of the removal of two obelisks from the tomb of King Nub-Kheper-Ra Intef. The obelisks were reportedly removed from the tomb in 1881 on orders of the then French director of the Council of Antiquities in Cairo, who wanted them transferred to old Cairo Museum. Unfortunately, the boat with the heavy obelisks sank in the Nile, some 10 kilometres from Luxor. Polz and his team plan to continue excavation work on the tomb in October to discover what lies in another room believed to be located below the burial shaft.<ref>[http://www.crystalinks.com/cd.html cf. June 2001]</ref>
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