Posted on 05/07/2014 7:06:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Four deposits of artifacts possibly buried as a ritual act of sorts before the construction of a tomb have been discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
The so-called foundation deposits, arranged in a boxlike shape, contain a mix of artifacts, including the head of a cow, a vase painted in blue and flint blades that have wooden handles that are still preserved after more than three millennia...
The discovery was made in its "western valley," an area sometimes called the "valley of the monkeys" after a scene depicting 12 baboons was discovered in one of its tombs...
[Afifi] Ghonim, an archaeologist with the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities, was field supervisor of the Egyptian expedition to the valley that took place between 2007 and 2011, and [Glen] Dash led a team that did ground-penetrating radar work. This expedition, led by Zahi Hawass, was the largest since Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922...
The newfound deposits were likely laid out as the foundation for a tomb...
The researchers suspect there is an undiscovered tomb nearby...
These foundation deposits are usually laid out so that four of them form a box shape and a fifth is placed on the axis of the tomb. "We found the four deposits that made up the box, but not the fifth. Perhaps it too is there, awaiting discovery in front of the tomb," Ghonim said.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
The four deposits of artifacts found at Egypt's Valley of the Kings, in a boxlike shape. There should be a fifth deposit on the axis of the undiscovered tomb and that deposit has yet to be found. Credit: Afifi Rohim Afifi and Glen Dash
A view of the Valley of the Kings, the burial place of rulers from Egypt's New Kingdom period (ca. 1550-1070 B.C.), including Merenptah. Credit: : Image by Przemyslaw Idzkiewicz, CC Attribution share-alike generic 2.5, available on Wikimedia
I would love to go there.................
So THAT'S where I put it! I knew I should have made a map.
“Zowie” Hawass denigrates Nick Reeves and his work:
http://www.drhawass.com/blog/search-truth-about-kv64
amarna royal tombs project
http://www.nicholasreeves.com/artp.aspx
It could be pretty interesting. I’ve got to dig out the reference to an unknown, AFAIK unnumbered and unexcavated tomb, hope the book is the one I remember and that it’s online...
Meanwhile...
Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al
Posted on 1/13/2005 11:03:55 PM by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1320504/posts
The so-called foundation deposits, arranged in a boxlike shape, contain a mix of artifacts, including the head of a cow, a vase painted in blue and flint blades that have wooden handles and a Kenyan birth certificate. :-)
Wished I’d spent a few extra days in Egypt.. Luxor! Thebes! The Valleys! Alas.
“I would love to go there.................”
Been there! I highly recommend a cruise down the Nile including a stop at the Valley of the Kings!
:’)
Be prepared to find out what dysentery really is. Even if you try to stand on your head gravity doesn't help.
99 dead baboons,
Sitting in my living room.
This one’s Jake, that one’s Dinah,
And there’s Big Ned in my recliner.
Missing Tombs of the Pharaohs
By Peter Tyson
Posted 01.03.06NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/missing-tombs-pharaohs.html
[snip] All the same, it was something that Weeks said toward the end of our conversation that—I’ll be honest—really pricked up my ears. “One of my colleagues may very well make an announcement within the next three or four months of something, whether it’s another tomb remains to be seen,” Weeks said. “He is working in an area of the Valley that has not been looked at before. It was an area that I described in my book The Lost Tomb and predicted that there might very well be a tomb in that area. And something’s coming up—there are some scratches on the stone that are clearly man-made and not natural.” [/snip]
Missing tombs of Egypt
Royal tombs still to be unearthed.
http://ib205.tripod.com/lost_tombs.html
[snip] Is there a 3rd grand cache of royal mummies waiting to be discovered? A faint graffiti left in the tomb of Horemheb by the High Priest Herihor may suggest that other royal mummies were being moved to a secret tomb (these mummies could include Horemheb, Ay and Tuthmosis I). Could this cache be hidden with the undiscovered tomb of High Priest Herihor himself? (Professor Andrzej Niwinski has recently been searching for this tomb using an ancient tomb robbers’ map). [/snip]
Hate to say it but probably better to leave it all buried. MB can’t get at it there like the Taliban got the Buddhas in Afghanistan.
Ha!!
Thanks
if you go there, pay attention to two things:
1.Ancient Christian church close to Temple of Hatshepsut in ruins. Never mentioned.
2. Pyramid-like hill in Valley of the Kings - that's why the location was chosen in the first place.
Egyptian civilisation of Old and Middle Kingdom were nothing but the copycats of an older civilization flourishing there around 20,000 BC
Now is perhaps the last moment to visit Egypt. Sooner or later, Moozeslime Brotherhood will get the upper hand.
Be prepared, learn as much as you can and bring an awful lot of SD cards with you. It is indeed the race against the time.
Ha!!
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