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.
Or who thought "let's pull his brain out through his nose with a crochet hook . . . ."
According to the MSNBC article you posted a link to, Zahi/Zowie is going to the tomb tomorrow.
The tomb may not have been meant for royalty, but neither was DB320, where most of the royal mummies turned up, and not all of the New Kingdom pharaohs are accounted for. Now I'm wondering if Ay or Horemheb got moved here.
US dig uncovers King Tut's neighbours
The Age | February 9, 2006 - 2:26AM
Posted on 02/08/2006 10:48:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1574477/posts
:') Couple of links (how untypical of me):
PINUDJEM Ist REVEALED
Closing in on the Missing Mummy of Cache DB320
http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/summer95/end.html
Cache at Deir el-Bahari - DB-320
Dariusz Sitek
http://68.40.181.69/teby/db320_en.htm
(loaded this one from Google cache)
same guy:
A Short History of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt: History and chronology by Dariusz Sitek
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/history.htm
aha... same guy, working URL:
Cache at Deir el-Bahari - DB-320
http://narmer.pl/teby/db320_en.htm
It's Sharon, on his ranch!
...Oh ooops, never mind.
It appears that someone is p-d off by the pre-release:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/13837887.htm
"Officials were tight-lipped Thursday, a day after announcing the find. Calls to Hawass and other officials were not answered. American archaeologist Otto Schaden, who headed the team that uncovered the site, declined to answer any questions when contacted by reporters."
The site of the the one and only http://www.zahihawass.com/
I wonder if he knows that the intro is a joke (or is it?)
Yeah, that's a big problem for Zowie. Some years ago when the Upuaut robot go cart probed those shafts in the Great Pyramid, the German builder made a press release; he was banned from further research in Egypt, just like that. A different team did the same thing, but this time under strict control of Hawass. Even the DVD releases of older National Geographic specials (shows which predate Hawass' tenure) have supplemental material that features Hawass.
I think NG should include prints of the cartoons in every package, as a sort of balance.
It's atrocious (as well as out of date), and this is the most atrocious of all:
http://www.zahihawass.com/articles_committee.htm
Committee Appointed to Assess Palestinian Monuments
Ministry of Culture
Supreme Council of Antiquities
Secretary General Office
Farouk Hosni, The Minister of Cultural and Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced today, April 9, 2002 that Egypt asked UNESCO to create a committee to go to Palestine and find out the current situation of the Islamic and Christian monuments. Dr. Mohammed Abdel Maqsoud will attend this meeting. He is meeting now with the Culture Committee of UNESCO in Paris, with the other Arab countries to explain this atrocious attack against the Palestinian monuments. It is very important to protect the Palestinian Heritage from the destruction of Israel. UNESCO agreed that Egypt, South Africa, Palestine and Hungary can formulate a report that explains and lists the damage that Israel is inflicting on the monuments.
Lara Croft, call your office!
Thanks for the ping.
I'm going along with the theory that the mummies were moved fron another location.
I say they died of a very contagious disease.
Yep. Bears repeating, too.
I'm not sure how the 18th dynasty fits in with Moses: The 10th plague? (slaying of the firstborn).
Still, I hope they take precautions against any surviving pathogens.
Bump for later
also in speaking with my jewish isreali friends, it is taught as fact that hatshepsut found moses in the river...
Wow. Thanks for the link!
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