Egypt
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-05-31-discovery-egypt_x.htm
- Mark Rose On Discovery's Latest Kv63 Offering
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/kv63/kv63.html Mark Rose continues to do a great job on the Archaeology magazine website with a new piece on the Discovery Channel's programme about the opening of the last coffin at KV63, accompanied by some...
- Discovery Channel - More On Kv63
http://tinyurl.com/e7rv7 (dsc.discovery.com) Discovery are advertising a follow-up to their first KV63 feature: "Egypt's New Tomb: Opening the Coffin is the second program following the astonishing discoveries being made by archaeologist Dr. Otto...
- Kv63 Update
Infant coffin photos http://www.kv-63.com/index.html The KV63 website has been updated with a "Breaking News" piece showing photos of a 42cm long infant coffin made of pink gold-leaf and found in the youth coffin. This is the best source of photos for...
- Kv63 Website Updated
http://www.kv-63.com/index.htmlI don't know how I came to miss this, because I check the site every morning, but there is a posting dated 23rd May on the KV63 website which I haven't previously picked up on. Details include more information about...
- Kv63 Documentary
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060522/dcm041.html?.v=48 More details about the Discovery Channel's documentary on KV63, which will be aired on June 4th: " For the first time ever audiences will descend down a narrow shaft beneath desert sands to enter...
Egypt
More on the KV63 gold coffin
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-05-31-discovery-egypt_x.htm
Another report about the tiny golden coffin found at KV63: "The archaeologists discovered seven coffins; there are no mummies in the first five they have opened, but there is one big surprise.
When they first peered into one of the coffins, they found a layer of six pillows, all of which were almost perfectly preserved in the vacuum-packed tomb after more than 3,000 years. At least one of the pillows contained hieroglyphic markings reading, 'life, stability, and power.' But as the team carefully removed them, they noticed a much smaller coffin buried inside.
As lead archaeologist Otto Schaden picked it up, the light of a torch caught a glimmer of gold.
'Everybody burst into applause,' says Anthony Geffen, producer of the Discovery Channel's Egypt's New Tomb Revealed, who was present for the discovery May 24. 'Everyone's (usually) very reserved in the world of archaeology.'
Schaden, an Egyptologist for the University of Memphis in Tennessee, cradled the coffin like a child as others broke into tears.
See the above page for the full story.
Thanks very much to Crew Creative Media for their invitation to use photographs associated with the Discovery Channel's above-mentioned programme.
When they first peered into one of the coffins, they found a layer of six pillows, all of which were almost perfectly preserved in the vacuum-packed tomb after more than 3,000 years. At least one of the pillows contained hieroglyphic markings reading, 'life, stability, and power.' But as the team carefully removed them, they noticed a much smaller coffin buried inside.As lead archaeologist Otto Schaden picked it up, the light of a torch caught a glimmer of gold.
'Everybody burst into applause,' says Anthony Geffen, producer of the Discovery Channel's Egypt's New Tomb Revealed, who was present for the discovery May 24. 'Everyone's (usually) very reserved in the world of archaeology.'
Schaden, an Egyptologist for the University of Memphis in Tennessee, cradled the coffin like a child as others broke into tears.
See the above page for the full story.
Thanks very much to Crew Creative Media for their invitation to use photographs associated with the Discovery Channel's above-mentioned programme. The official Discovery press release was linked to yesterday:
http://tinyurl.com/lkl4c (prnewswire.com)
- Mark Rose On Discovery's Latest Kv63 Offering
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/kv63/kv63.html Mark Rose continues to do a great job on the Archaeology magazine website with a new piece on the Discovery Channel's programme about the opening of the last coffin at KV63, accompanied by some...
- Discovery Channel - More On Kv63
http://tinyurl.com/e7rv7 (dsc.discovery.com) Discovery are advertising a follow-up to their first KV63 feature: "Egypt's New Tomb: Opening the Coffin is the second program following the astonishing discoveries being made by archaeologist Dr. Otto...
- Kv63 Update
Infant coffin photos http://www.kv-63.com/index.html The KV63 website has been updated with a "Breaking News" piece showing photos of a 42cm long infant coffin made of pink gold-leaf and found in the youth coffin. This is the best source of photos for...
- Kv63 Website Updated
http://www.kv-63.com/index.htmlI don't know how I came to miss this, because I check the site every morning, but there is a posting dated 23rd May on the KV63 website which I haven't previously picked up on. Details include more information about...
- Kv63 Documentary
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060522/dcm041.html?.v=48 More details about the Discovery Channel's documentary on KV63, which will be aired on June 4th: " For the first time ever audiences will descend down a narrow shaft beneath desert sands to enter...