Posted on 01/20/2012 5:28:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
During the season of 2011, three edges of an unknown manmade feature appeared at 1.80m to the north of KV 40, on the 25th of January, the first day of the Egyptian revolution. Due to the situation, it was immediately covered with an iron door.
As this structure is so close to KV 40 and as it was impossible to know whether it was just a short unfinished shaft or a real tomb, we gave it the temporary number 40b. This number is now replaced by the final designation KV 64. The KV numbers should definitely be used exclusively for real tombs or deposits and not for possible cavities and yet unascertained structures.
This season, work was resumed on January 8th. With the permission of the Ministry of State of Antiquities we started to work on the unknown structure.
It soon turned out to be a rock-cut tomb of the 18th dynasty, 15th century BCE. In the shaft the upper edge of the door appeared at a depth of about 2.5m. The shaft measures approximately 1.10m by 1.60m. Its fill showed no evidence of being affected by flood water.
In the blocking of the entrance, two stages of use could be observed. Large stones in front and over the entrance belong to a secondary occupation. Of the primary phase dating to the 18th dynasty, some 0.50cm of the plaster seal of the entrance and a Nile silt flower pot with remnants of this plaster remain on the floor of the shaft.
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The other, earlier one wasn’t excavated AFAIK; I don’t think these are the same site.
Hawass (no longer in power) ignored, then ridiculed, Reeves’ team’s work, which also led to the discovery of KV63 btw.
Bravo, my ass. Those two are merely thread hijackers.
/bingo
Another new tomb in the Valley of the Kings: ‘KV64’
Valley of the Kings Foundation | 31 July 2006 | Nicholas Reeves
Posted on 08/04/2006 6:20:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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