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...
- 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 - A Round-up Of The Week's News
A round-up of the main news items concerning last Wednesday's opening of the last coffin, with Zahi Hawass at the helm. First of all, here's an excellent photograph of what they found when they opened the coffin: http://www.antiquos.com/images/restos-humanos-kv63.jpg...
- Hawass Dig Days: Kv63
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/790/hr2.htm Zahi Hawass's Dig Days column on the Al Ahram website this week features KV63, the newly discovered shaft and chamber in the Valley of the Kings. This is part 1 of an item which is scheduled to be continued:...
- Kv63 - A Mummy Workshop?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11810055/Also covered by Yahoo! News at http://tinyurl.com/rkpnpA short statement from Zahi Hawass on the above site suggests that KV63 may not have been a tomb or a cachette as previously proposed, but was in fact a manufacturing...
Egypt
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 views on whether or not the tomb's original owner can be identified:
"Hawass says historical evidence indicates that Tutankhamun's mother died giving birth to him and that there was not enough time to build her an elaborate tomb. Tutankhamun took the throne at the age of 8 or 9 more than 3,300 years ago. Before he died in his late teens, he asked to be buried near his mother, Hawass says.
Pottery and seals found in the tomb were similar to those found in King Tut's tomb. Faces painted on coffins in both tombs closely resemble each other as well, Hawass says.
But Egyptologist Otto Schaden of the University of Memphis, who is leading the archaeological team, says there is not enough evidence to determine whose tomb it was.
'The coffin has absolutely no royal insignia, so it's very unlikely it belongs to a queen,' Schaden says. 'As head of the antiquities, (Hawass is) in a position to draw whatever conclusions he wishes. I can't say he's wrong because I can't say whose tomb it was meant to be.'
Pottery and seals found in the tomb were similar to those found in King Tut's tomb. Faces painted on coffins in both tombs closely resemble each other as well, Hawass says.
But Egyptologist Otto Schaden of the University of Memphis, who is leading the archaeological team, says there is not enough evidence to determine whose tomb it was.
'The coffin has absolutely no royal insignia, so it's very unlikely it belongs to a queen,' Schaden says. 'As head of the antiquities, (Hawass is) in a position to draw whatever conclusions he wishes. I can't say he's wrong because I can't say whose tomb it was meant to be.'
As archaeologists continue to examine the final coffin's fragile contents, they hope to find hieroglyphics that give more decisive evidence of the tomb's former inhabitant."
See the above article for the full story.
- 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...
- 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 - A Round-up Of The Week's News
A round-up of the main news items concerning last Wednesday's opening of the last coffin, with Zahi Hawass at the helm. First of all, here's an excellent photograph of what they found when they opened the coffin: http://www.antiquos.com/images/restos-humanos-kv63.jpg...
- Hawass Dig Days: Kv63
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/790/hr2.htm Zahi Hawass's Dig Days column on the Al Ahram website this week features KV63, the newly discovered shaft and chamber in the Valley of the Kings. This is part 1 of an item which is scheduled to be continued:...
- Kv63 - A Mummy Workshop?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11810055/Also covered by Yahoo! News at http://tinyurl.com/rkpnpA short statement from Zahi Hawass on the above site suggests that KV63 may not have been a tomb or a cachette as previously proposed, but was in fact a manufacturing...