Egypt
- Variations On An Enigma
Al Ahram Weekly Recent discoveries at the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank have changed the understanding of one of the most intriguing archaeological sites in Egypt, says Nevine El-Aref The Valley of the Kings is one of the richest and most...
- More Re Speculation On Kv63's Owner
http://tinyurl.com/rm5zh (AOL News)Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for the following item, which looks at Hawass's view that KV63 was originally a tomb and was later used as a storage area for embalming materials. Schaden and Hawass have differing...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
The Eye of Re on the Mummy of Pharaoh Seti I By the time Pharaoh Seti I was buried in 1279 BC he had restored Egypt to the former glory lost during the Amarna period of a half century earlier. Seti left as tribute to his reign temples such as at Abydos...
- The Cave Of Sokar
This is Dr. Hawass on the tunnel in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of Kings which his team have recently finished excavating. Dr. Hawass explains the tunnels meaning including the Kings plan of building a tomb within the tomb but Seti's time ran...
- A Cemetery For Thutmosis And Amenhotep
My intentions in writing this article is only meant as an interpretation of the royal necropolis with a number of the tombs mentioned we will probably never know anything about. It appears the early kings of dynasty 18 used the new cemetery to keep their...
Egypt
Daily Photo - KV23, Tomb of Ay
These photographs of the eighteenth dynasty tomb of Ay are even furrier than yesterday's batch, but they do give you an idea of the colouring and some of the subject matter.
The tomb, which was discovered by Belzoni in 1816, is located away from the main concentration of tombs, in the western part of the Valley of the Kings. It was cleared in the early 1970s by Otto Schaden, who has been excavating in recent years at KV10 and KV63.
Ay succeeded to the throne of Tutankhamun, and as a senior official under the reign of Akhenaten he originally had a tomb under construction close to the city of Amarna, which he abandoned following the fall of the Amarna rule. His tomb in the Valley of the Kings was apparently created for a different owner and was usurped by Ay for his own burial. It has a number of unusual features. The decoration bears more than a passing resemblence to that of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The scene showing hunting of water birds in the marshes is unique in a Pharaonic tomb - the activity was usually only displayed in the tombs of the nobles - and the four sons of Horus, shown on the ticket below, are represented in a royal tomb for the first time.
The tomb, which was discovered by Belzoni in 1816, is located away from the main concentration of tombs, in the western part of the Valley of the Kings. It was cleared in the early 1970s by Otto Schaden, who has been excavating in recent years at KV10 and KV63.
Ay succeeded to the throne of Tutankhamun, and as a senior official under the reign of Akhenaten he originally had a tomb under construction close to the city of Amarna, which he abandoned following the fall of the Amarna rule. His tomb in the Valley of the Kings was apparently created for a different owner and was usurped by Ay for his own burial. It has a number of unusual features. The decoration bears more than a passing resemblence to that of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The scene showing hunting of water birds in the marshes is unique in a Pharaonic tomb - the activity was usually only displayed in the tombs of the nobles - and the four sons of Horus, shown on the ticket below, are represented in a royal tomb for the first time.
- Variations On An Enigma
Al Ahram Weekly Recent discoveries at the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank have changed the understanding of one of the most intriguing archaeological sites in Egypt, says Nevine El-Aref The Valley of the Kings is one of the richest and most...
- More Re Speculation On Kv63's Owner
http://tinyurl.com/rm5zh (AOL News)Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for the following item, which looks at Hawass's view that KV63 was originally a tomb and was later used as a storage area for embalming materials. Schaden and Hawass have differing...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
The Eye of Re on the Mummy of Pharaoh Seti I By the time Pharaoh Seti I was buried in 1279 BC he had restored Egypt to the former glory lost during the Amarna period of a half century earlier. Seti left as tribute to his reign temples such as at Abydos...
- The Cave Of Sokar
This is Dr. Hawass on the tunnel in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of Kings which his team have recently finished excavating. Dr. Hawass explains the tunnels meaning including the Kings plan of building a tomb within the tomb but Seti's time ran...
- A Cemetery For Thutmosis And Amenhotep
My intentions in writing this article is only meant as an interpretation of the royal necropolis with a number of the tombs mentioned we will probably never know anything about. It appears the early kings of dynasty 18 used the new cemetery to keep their...