Egypt
- Feature: The Riddle Of Kv63
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video After King Tut’s tomb was discovered, everyone thought there were no more tombs to be found in the Valley of the Kings. But in 2006, we made an amazing discovery, the shaft of an unknown tomb. When I first saw the...
- More Re Saqqara Mummy Discovery
World Bulletin The identity of the main mummy found in the tomb was not known, but Hawass said he would have been wealthy. The lid of his sarcophagus was cracked, but Hawass said it had been sealed with mortar in antiquity, preserving the mummy. "If...
- Mummification Lecture: Look Into Their Eyes
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) Thanks to Jane for another set of lecture notes. Look into their eyes – Earl Ertman I do like Earl’s lectures; he gave one on “Smiting, keeping it in the family” which was thought provoking and well researched, this was...
- Kv63
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12990529/A three page article on the MSNBC website about KV63 and the knowledge that has been accumulated so far, including extracts from a recent interview with Otto Schaden: "Five of KV-63's coffins are known to contain mummification...
- Updates On The New Kings Valley Find
http://tinyurl.com/amdaw (CNN) A few more details about the site and its contents: "So far, archaeologists have not entered the tomb, having only opened part of its 1.5-meter (yard)-high entrance door last week. But they have peered inside the single...
Egypt
KV63 update
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6468
According to Egypt Today, KV63 will be officially opened on March 10th: "Much of the speculation could end on March 10, when the tomb is officially opened and the contents of the seven sarcophagi inside are examined and photographed by Hawass, Schaden and their staffs.
And yes, there are seven coffins, not five, as has previously been reported. Hawass explains the discrepancy: 'Later [after initial press reports] in the excavations, they found remains of coffin number six and still another coffin of a child.' Hawass offers a further, if somewhat guarded, forecast of what he does and does not expect to find: 'One possibility [for the origin of the mummies] is that in the 21st Dynasty, the Priests of Amun wanted to save the mummies and they began to enter into tombs and take the mummies and hide them. This could be a cachet of hidden tombs. To this day, we still do not know where the mummies of Tuthmosis I, Hatshepsut, Amenhotep or the mummy of Akhenaten are. Maybe this could be a clue.' "
And yes, there are seven coffins, not five, as has previously been reported. Hawass explains the discrepancy: 'Later [after initial press reports] in the excavations, they found remains of coffin number six and still another coffin of a child.' Hawass offers a further, if somewhat guarded, forecast of what he does and does not expect to find: 'One possibility [for the origin of the mummies] is that in the 21st Dynasty, the Priests of Amun wanted to save the mummies and they began to enter into tombs and take the mummies and hide them. This could be a cachet of hidden tombs. To this day, we still do not know where the mummies of Tuthmosis I, Hatshepsut, Amenhotep or the mummy of Akhenaten are. Maybe this could be a clue.' "
Roll on March 10th!
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6469
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6469
Also on the Egypt Today website is a short interview with Otto Schaden: "I don’t think that there is anything beyond. It is a shaft chamber and it looks like only one chamber. As was reported, there are a number of coffins in there with some of them in pretty bad shape, but some look to be in good shape as well. We are still just excavating in the door and we have done some mapping and photography inside, but we are not yet to the stage where we can get close enough to study the coffins or to see what is inside or to even see if there are any names, and we are most anxious to find some names."
See the above page for the entire interview.
- Feature: The Riddle Of Kv63
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video After King Tut’s tomb was discovered, everyone thought there were no more tombs to be found in the Valley of the Kings. But in 2006, we made an amazing discovery, the shaft of an unknown tomb. When I first saw the...
- More Re Saqqara Mummy Discovery
World Bulletin The identity of the main mummy found in the tomb was not known, but Hawass said he would have been wealthy. The lid of his sarcophagus was cracked, but Hawass said it had been sealed with mortar in antiquity, preserving the mummy. "If...
- Mummification Lecture: Look Into Their Eyes
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) Thanks to Jane for another set of lecture notes. Look into their eyes – Earl Ertman I do like Earl’s lectures; he gave one on “Smiting, keeping it in the family” which was thought provoking and well researched, this was...
- Kv63
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12990529/A three page article on the MSNBC website about KV63 and the knowledge that has been accumulated so far, including extracts from a recent interview with Otto Schaden: "Five of KV-63's coffins are known to contain mummification...
- Updates On The New Kings Valley Find
http://tinyurl.com/amdaw (CNN) A few more details about the site and its contents: "So far, archaeologists have not entered the tomb, having only opened part of its 1.5-meter (yard)-high entrance door last week. But they have peered inside the single...