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Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al
Posted on 01/13/2005 8:03:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Reportedly, the neighbors said they didn't know Tut very well. "He's quiet, keeps to himself, not stand-offish mind you," said Ms. Saidy Horen, "but it's those deep ones you have to watch out for, in't it?"
Tres cool! I wonder what the chances are of ever finding another intact tomb.
First peek at ancient tombThe door was partly opened last week to reveal the simple burial place, believed to be from the first dynasty of the New Kingdom, which ruled between 1539BC and 1292BC and had its capital in Thebes, the present city of Luxor. One of the coffins had toppled towards the door, revealing its white painted face, and another was partly open, showing a brown cloth covering the mummy inside... Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's supreme council of antiquities, said: "Maybe they are mummies of kings or queens or nobles, we don't know. But it's definitely someone connected to the royal family."
by Nic Fleming
February 12, 2006
The Age
two other related topics, newer:
Tomb Found in Egypt's Valley of Kings
The Houston Chronicle | February 10, 2006 | TANALEE SMITH
Posted on 02/10/2006 7:21:28 AM PST by Founding Father
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Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt [Possibly Nefertiti ... find by American archaeologists]
BBC News on line | February 10, 2006 | Unsigned
Posted on 02/10/2006 3:57:33 PM PST by aculeus
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My guess as to the eventual URL for KV63, on the Theban Mapping Project website:
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_877.html
U of M-sponsored Find in Egypt Promises More "Wonderful Things"The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced yesterday that an expedition sponsored by the University of Memphis has discovered a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb appears to date to the 18th Dynasty (ca. 1539-1292 B.C.) and it contains five human mummies and several pottery vessels. It is located just a few meters from the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
WebWire
February 12, 2006
The University of Memphis, through its Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, has sponsored the Amenmesse Tomb Project (KV 10) – the scientific excavation and conservation of the tomb of Late 19th Dynasty King Amenmesse – since 1995, three years after the project was begun.
Interesting choice of title for the article, eh? ;')Tombs in CollisionThe quarrymen who began work on KV 11 for Setnakht at the southern end of the Valley of the Kings did not know that another tomb, KV 10 belonging to Amenmeses, already lay nearby. While cutting corridor D1a of KV 11, workmen broke into side chamber Fa of KV 10 [16923]. They immediately abandoned work here and instead, decided to enlarge another, already existing tomb for Setnakht's use. This was KV 14, originally dug in Dynasty 19 for Queen Tausert. Later, Setnakht's son and successor, Rameses III, returned to KV 11 and adopted it for his own burial. His workmen slightly changed the axial orientation of the tomb to avoid any more problems with KV 10 and went on to dig one of the largest tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
by Kent Weeks
December 11, 2002
Theban Mapping Project
I had a dream last night that two of these mummies were identified as Akhenaton and Nefertiti. :')
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.
Ohio retiree in Egypt exploring newfound tombAn Egyptologist from Ohio is among those helping unearth a tomb that's thousands of years old and the first discovered in eight decades in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Earl Ertman, 73, of Tallmadge, is an associate director on the project. The retired University of Akron art professor has the job of identifying objects the researchers uncover... Ertman is part of the team of American archaeologists that discovered the chamber while working on the neighboring tomb of Amenmeses, a late 19th Dynasty pharaoh. The project is affiliated with the University of Memphis.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
New Tomb Discovered in the Valley of the KingsThe burial chamber holds seven wooden anthropoid ("human-shaped") coffins with painted faces, about twenty pottery jars, and other materials that will come to light as the clearing of the tomb progresses.
Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology
University of Memphis
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]Fight over newly discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings: Explorer Ousted!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."
Legendary Times
2/18/2006
www.mysteries-magazin.com
http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htm
"4 March 2006 -- Salima Ikram is supervising the removal and examination of the contents. Thus afar, we have examined only two of the 28 jars, as one additional jar was found under the collapsed footboard of the first coffin."
Salima Ikram photos (because we all know the rules...)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/537/ani3.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mummy/images/ikra-05-ikram.jpg
http://www.kv5.de/images/new_salima.jpg
