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[May 30 2006 update]

"Dr. Zahi Hawass officially pronounced our newly discovered tomb, KV-63 on 10 February 2006. However, the initial shaft was discovered a few days before the end of our 2005 season."

[see message 42 in this thread]


55 posted on 05/31/2006 8:18:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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[IMHO, Hawass -- who had earlier pronounced KV-63 to be something other than a tomb, then said it was a tomb -- now states that this was to be the final resting place of Tut's mom, who died in Amarna. That would be unusual, because the downfall of the House of Akhenaten hadn't yet happened, so her burial place should have been in Amarna itself]

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/kv63/kv63.html

In a June 28 press release the contents of the coffin are listed as "gilded collars ornamented with flowers, sticks, linen pieces, clay fragments, and golden 'shreds.'" The same press release, gives the following interpretations of KV63:

"I announce today my belief that KV63 is indeed the tomb of King Tutankhamun's mother, Queen Kiya," stated Dr. Hawass. "The identification of KV63 as the final resting place of Queeen Kiya helps to solve the riddle of the location of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. KV63 faces KV62, making it clear that the tomb was for someone near and dear to king Tutankhamun."

and

"Historical evidence shows that Queen Kiya died giving birth to King Tutankhamun in Amarna. Dr. Hawass and Dr. Schaden theorize that the boy pharaoh secretly ordered his mother's tomb to be moved to the Valley of the Kings, and that prior to his death, King Tutankhamun requested to be buried near his mother."


56 posted on 07/07/2006 9:23:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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