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Posted on 02/09/2006 7:32:55 AM PST by AdmSmith
CAIRO (Reuters) - An American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT
The tomb contains five or six mummies in intact sarcophagi from the late 18th dynasty, about the same period as Tutankhamun, but the archaeologists have not yet had the time or the access to identify them, the archaeologist added.
The 18th dynasty ruled Egypt from 1567 BC to 1320 BC, a period during which the country's power reached a peak.
The Valley of the Kings in southern Egypt contains the tombs of most of the pharaohs of the time but the archaeologist said the mummies in the newly found tomb need not be royal.
"There are lots of non-royal tombs in the valley. It wouldn't be the only one by any means," said the archaeologist, who asked not to be named because the Egyptian authorities are planning a media event at the site on Friday.
"The archaeologists haven't been inside properly yet. It's very small and cramped but it is late 18th dynasty," she added.
A statement from the government's Supreme Council of Antiquities said the tomb was found by a team from the University of Memphis in the United States.
The five sarcophagi, which are carved to human form, have coloured funerary masks and the tomb contains a large number of big storage jars, the statement said.
"For an unknown reason they were buried rapidly in the small tomb," it added.
The tomb, 5 km (three miles) from that of Tutankhamun, was covered with the rubble of workmen's huts dating from the latter part of the 19th dynasty, more than 100 years after the tomb was sealed, it said.
Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
BBC History | September 5, 2002 | Dr Marc Gabolde
Posted on 07/30/2004 9:42:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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He has a difficult job, just keeping his head on his shoulders.
That's how I feel about my office.
Cool! not even 20 posts, and we have the first reference to the Goa'uld.
It's King Rooten Tooten.
Better get the gate ready...just in case. :-)
LOL Good one!
"More likely their original burial place was partially plundered soon after their interment and they we re-buried hastily and secretly by the devout."
Yeah, but my scenario would make for a better movie.
Oh he will, no doubt about that. Last year I managed to collect ten pictures of Egyptian scientists removing Tutankhamen's remains from his sarcophagus, running him through a CAT scanner, and putting him back afterwards. Zahi was in all but one of them. What a ham.
Dr. Hawass wouldn't miss it. I hope the a network preempts for the show.
Egypt's flogger deluxe' greatest difficulty is getting his swollen noggin through those various passageways and doorways ...
Yes, that this sure suggests that they died of a contagious disease.
AND it also explains well why their tomb has never been "plundered." I often wondered about that as to Tutenkamun also, at least, almost certainly, there would be rumors about such in his case, given that his tomb was attempted to be plundered but that once opened (and almost certainly once plunderers realized whose tomb it was and what meaning that had), it was quickly shut down again without accessing the actual burial chamber of Tutenkamun.
I'm thinking that it might probably have been tuberculosis or the plague. Many people just may have assumed/concluded that King Tut had one or the other or similar given his circumstances, which would've been good cover for political espionage, also).
Those tomb robbers with so many centuries to do their deeds...I'm sure they avoided the few certain tombs only for dire reasons.
Or the canopic jars.
Anyway... they had a lot of guts, those Egyptians.
"I actually have a soft spot for ol' Zowie. He's such a shameless self-promoter and Indiana Jones type...and his enthusiasm is infectious."
I think he's a jerk who pooped all over that woman who most likely found Nefertiti because what she found didn't fit his theories. If anything, he's a big detriment to foreigners working in Egypt.
"Anyway... they had a lot of guts, those Egyptians."
Makes you wonder how someone decided oke day, "Hey guys I have a cool idea! Let's cut out his guts and put them in jars!"
"Dude that would be so cool, let's do it!"
Yeah, yeah.
Well, they say when you get older the first three things that go are your looks, your stamina.....and....I forget the other one.
There's a bunch of articles online now, this is the most recent I've seen:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11252094/
Given the existence of a pit tomb (no remains), also probably of late 18th dynasty, and KV55's chaotic contents, I'm still pulling for these mummies to be from the royal family of the Amarna period.
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_869.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_868.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_872.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_837.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_835.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_854.html
Having seen the video (I got the DVD for Xmas), I'd have to say that the woman who claims to have identified Nefertiti A) made this ID before she ever set foot in KV35, B) discovered no evidence to support the claim, C) discovered evidence that mitigates against her claim, and D) didn't acknowledge the work (available online) of Marianne Luban, who has been claiming the same mummy ID for quite a while now. At least some of the mummies in KV35 were put there as a cache, after having been desecrated in their original tombs.
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_849.html
http://www.geocities.com/scribelist/dowehave1st.htm
http://www.geocities.com/scribelist/kv55.htm
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