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- University Of Basel King's Valley Project - Perliminary Report 2012
University of Basel (Susanne Bickel, Elina Paulin-Grothe) A very useful report on the work being carried out by the University of Basel in the Valley of the Kings (including KV64). With photos, including a lovely coloured fragment of 18th Dynasty...
- More Details Re Nehmes-bastet And Kv64
Swiss.info Not a lot new here, except that the dimension of the mummy and the coffin are now provided (with a substantial discrepancy between the two heights), and there's a nice account of the discovery of the site. Having examined the inscriptions,...
- 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...
- New Mummy Found?
Yahoo News There are various oddities in this article. For a start Tomb 99 (Sennefer) is in the Valley of the Nobles (not the Valley of the Kings), and and the excavations lead by Cambridge University's Nigel Strudwick, and reported in detail on his...
- Picture Of The Singer Of Amun From Kv 64
Here is a short article with a picture of the coffin as found in the tomb in the Valley of Kings. The singer in the coffins name is Nehmes Bastet. Her name is associated with the cat god Bastet. Note the small stela next to the feet of the coffin....
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More re new VOK discovery
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I was somewhat dubious that the location had been correctly identified in earlier rumours, because the Valley of the Kings was reserved for royalty and their immediate family and dependents - but in this article Mansour Boraiq confirms that the site is indeed in the Valley of the Kings, and the burial was of a non-royal woman.
The singer's name, Nehmes Bastet, means she was believed to be protected by the feline deity Bastet.
The tomb was found by accident, according to Elena Pauline-Grothe, field director for excavation at the Valley of the Kings with Switzerland's University of Basel.
"We were not looking for new tombs. It was close to another tomb that was discovered 100 years ago," Pauline-Grothe said.
Pauline-Grothe said the tomb was not originally built for the female singer, but was reused for her 400 years after the original one, based on artifacts found inside. Archaeologists do not know whom the tomb was originally intended for.
The coffin of the singer belonged to the daughter of a high priest during the 22nd Dynasty.
Archaeologists concluded from artifacts that she sang in Karnak Temple, one of the most famous and largest open-air sites from the Pharaonic era, according to evidence at the site.
See the above page for more.
- University Of Basel King's Valley Project - Perliminary Report 2012
University of Basel (Susanne Bickel, Elina Paulin-Grothe) A very useful report on the work being carried out by the University of Basel in the Valley of the Kings (including KV64). With photos, including a lovely coloured fragment of 18th Dynasty...
- More Details Re Nehmes-bastet And Kv64
Swiss.info Not a lot new here, except that the dimension of the mummy and the coffin are now provided (with a substantial discrepancy between the two heights), and there's a nice account of the discovery of the site. Having examined the inscriptions,...
- 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...
- New Mummy Found?
Yahoo News There are various oddities in this article. For a start Tomb 99 (Sennefer) is in the Valley of the Nobles (not the Valley of the Kings), and and the excavations lead by Cambridge University's Nigel Strudwick, and reported in detail on his...
- Picture Of The Singer Of Amun From Kv 64
Here is a short article with a picture of the coffin as found in the tomb in the Valley of Kings. The singer in the coffins name is Nehmes Bastet. Her name is associated with the cat god Bastet. Note the small stela next to the feet of the coffin....