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Nicholas Reeves is taking credit for the discovery of KV63:

Fight over newly discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings: Explorer Ousted!
Legendary Times
2/18/2006
www.mysteries-magazin.com
As a matter of fact we first located the tomb during the course of a ground-penetrating survey of our concession in 2000." ...The British Egyptologist has no idea why he is not credited to be the discoverer... "The Americans were handed copies of our radar data in mid-2005 as soon as we heard of their stumbling upon it." ...In the consequence the Egyptian authorities surprisingly disbarred Nicholas Reeves of his excavation licence - so that now the American team was free to take credit for it. Will the British Egyptologist continue his "Amarna Royal Tombs Project"? Reeves: "We are in discussion with the Supreme Council of Antiquities. But regrettably there is no clarity on this issue just at present."

Reeves was barred from excavation in Egypt pending a hearing on allegations of antiquities stealing and smuggling. He has, happily, been cleared of the allegations (at last). [source]

from the horse's mouth, perhaps a little more accurate, emphasis added:

Valley of the Kings Foundation
Home of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project
by Nicholas Reeves
First of all I should like to express ARTP’s delight at the recent uncovering by Otto Schaden’s University of Memphis team, outside the entrance to Amenmesse (KV10), of a new shaft tomb - KV63. The discovery offers welcome confirmation that my belief in the existence of further tombs in the Valley of the Kings was indeed soundly based... ARTP was quick to put at the disposal of Otto and his team our research on that particular area just as soon as we heard a rumour of the discovery in mid-2005. We send our best wishes for a painstaking and thorough excavation - properly executed the potential information-yield of the find should be very high indeed. Please note that for the time being this website will be the only official vehicle for my thoughts and comments on KV63.

One last little bit, same source as the "Legendary Times" thing.

http://www.glyphdoctors.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=501

Transcript of Dr. Hawass' announcement of the shaft

by Barb Krause - Friday, 10 February 2006, 08:13 PM

Here is the transcript of the announcement Zahi made:

Zahi Hawass lecture from the morning of 1/26/2006, Cairo time

Zahi Hawass: Some good news. I was in Luxor two days ago and I did go to the Valley of the Kings to see this shaft that has been excavated by Memphis State University. And they believe that this shaft is intact and the excavators believe that it's the tomb of Nefertiti. I think that they're going to open it two days from now. But the bad news is that I don't think that it's intact. When I looked at it, I found out that it has a Dynasty 19 deposit. Means that, uh, if Dynasty 19 exists in the area means, that the shaft was stolen in Dynasty 19. But it's going to be very exciting.

And at the same time in Luxor I saw the American expedition working also from Johns Hopkins University. And they found this beautiful statue. It's a life size statue, made of granite and it's for a lady. And it has no name except the name of Amenhotep the third which means that this statue should be for queen TI, the wife of Amenhotep III.

This is just to tell you what's happening in the field of excavations, what we are doing.

(Went into the slideshow)

Q and A following slide show.

(Several questions unrelated to the find in Luxor)

Q: This shaft you said they found that might be Nefertiti's tomb, is this a newly found shaft?

Zahi Hawass: Yes. They found it last year. And they did cover it. And they wanted to announce it and I said you can't announce that you found that shaft. You have to excavate the shaft and after that, we can announce that you found something.

Uh, there was an English expedition working on the other side by some one, his name is (I couldn’t make it out). And we stopped this man for many reasons. But he came this year to claim that this is his concession. But, then, this is an expedition from Memphis University and they began, for the last month, to clean the deposit above that shaft. It's at the entrance of the Valley of the Kings exactly. And when I went two days ago, I found they are opening today or tomorrow. But I, I can feel it's not really intact. They think it's intact. Then we'll see who's wrong and who's right tomorrow.

(further questions, unrelated)

	Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet by Nicholas Reeves
Akhenaten is known for being the ruler who attempted to restructure the Egyptian multigod religion organization into a monotheistic form of worship. Reeves, former curator of the British Museum's Department of Egyptian Antiquities, argues some new and original theories behind Akhenaten's actions regarding political policy and religion.