Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
- Lecture By Otto Schaden On Kv63
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has kindly shared her notes from the latest Mummification Museum lecture again. Otto opened the lecture by reminding us that whatever KV63 finally turns out to be it will always be the first tomb discovered since the...
- 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...
- Tv: Egypt's Mystery Chamber - Kv63
MarketWatch Since 2006 the world famous discovery of tomb KV63 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings has been shut to the outside world, the meaning of its remaining unopened relics, blemished inscriptions and delicate artifacts left shrouded in uncertainty....
- Dig Days: Secrets From The Embalming Storeroom
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/808/hr1.htmAnother curious piece about the internal politics within the KV63 team, from Zahi Hawass in his Dig Days column on the Al Ahram Weekly website: "Zahi HawassExcavations continue in the Valley of the Kings inside...
- Kv63 - Summary Of The Latest News
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/heritage.htm The Al Ahram Weekly's Nevine El-Aref summarizes the situation at KV63, with news of the latest discoveries: "Hawass told Al-Ahram Weekly that the team had also opened the sealed jars and found that...
Egypt
More re KV63 embalming bed
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
Following weeks of restoration work, a number of wooden plaques that were found inside a jar unearthed in tomb KV63 at the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank have proved to be the remains of a mummification bed.
The pieces have been identified as a plain, 170cm-long bed with a head rest and two carved heads of a lion and a lioness at the end. It slopes downwards 5cm from head to toe in order to help drain bodies being prepared for mummification. Bodies had their organs removed as soon as possible after death, including the brain, which was thrown away as it was thought to serve no purpose in the afterlife. The heart was left in the body, with other organs cleaned, perfumed and preserved in jars to be buried with the mummy. Afterwards, the corpse spent 40 days on the bed to drain the fluids, and another 15 days while it was bandaged.
"It is really a very important discovery, which confirms that KV63 is not a tomb for an individual but a storehouse for materials and objects used in mummification," SCA Secretary-General Zahi Hawass told Al-Ahram Weekly.
- Lecture By Otto Schaden On Kv63
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has kindly shared her notes from the latest Mummification Museum lecture again. Otto opened the lecture by reminding us that whatever KV63 finally turns out to be it will always be the first tomb discovered since the...
- 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...
- Tv: Egypt's Mystery Chamber - Kv63
MarketWatch Since 2006 the world famous discovery of tomb KV63 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings has been shut to the outside world, the meaning of its remaining unopened relics, blemished inscriptions and delicate artifacts left shrouded in uncertainty....
- Dig Days: Secrets From The Embalming Storeroom
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/808/hr1.htmAnother curious piece about the internal politics within the KV63 team, from Zahi Hawass in his Dig Days column on the Al Ahram Weekly website: "Zahi HawassExcavations continue in the Valley of the Kings inside...
- Kv63 - Summary Of The Latest News
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/heritage.htm The Al Ahram Weekly's Nevine El-Aref summarizes the situation at KV63, with news of the latest discoveries: "Hawass told Al-Ahram Weekly that the team had also opened the sealed jars and found that...