from Khazakhstan:
New tomb opened in Egypt's Valley of Kings
13.02 / 09:27 | 1008
http://www.inform.kz/txt/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=139754
LUXOR (Egypt). February 13, 2006. KAZINFORM - ...So far, archaeologists have not entered the tomb, having only opened part of its 1.6-yard-high (1.5-meter-high) entrance door last week. But they have peered inside the single chamber to see the sarcophagi, believed to contain mummies, surrounded by around 20 pharaonic jars... Schaden's team will finish clearing rubble from the bottom of the shaft, then completely open the door in the coming days to allow archaeologists to enter. They can then look for any hieroglyphs that identify those buried inside. The team hopes to remove the coffins before the end of the digging season, usually around May, when the weather gets too hot to work in the deserts outside Luxor, 300 miles (500 kilometers) south of Cairo, Schaden said. The coffins appear to have some damage from termites, Brock says. "It's going to take a lot of conservation work to consolidate these things before we can take them out," he said... [Kent Weeks commented that] Objects in the tomb "could be 200 to 400 years later than the original cutting of the tomb," he said.
A Concealed Cachet in Luxor!! February 2006
http://guardians.net/hawass/news/a_concealed_cachet_in_luxor.htm
...The sarcophagi contain mummies that date to the 18th dynasty, which for an unknown reason they were buried rapidly in the small tomb. Eight pits have also been located and archaeologists have suggested that they are stairs used by ancient Egyptians to enter and exit the tomb... Otto Shaden the director of the American mission said that from the build-up of the rubble and construction of workmen's huts above that tomb had been concealed at least since the latter part of dynasty 19.