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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Latest On Kv 63
Lecture Report by Roy W. HopperFirst posted to EEF, and copied here with the very kind permission of author Roy W. Hopper, this psoting summarizes some of the key points in an account given by KV63 team member Dr Lorelei: "Dr. Lorelei Corcoran, director...
Egypt
More re unveiling of embalming bed
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This is the same article as the one I posted yesterday, but has a much better photograph of the embalming bed that was reconstructed from wood located in KV63.
Luxor antiquities director Mansour Bouriq told AFP that unlike most beds found in tombs, this one was not ceremonial but actually used for embalming.
"We believe this was a room used for embalming because we found some embalming materials, including herbs, oils and pottery vessels," he said.
Tomb KV-63 was discovered by Egyptian and US archaeologists in 2006, the first to be found in the area in more than 80 years.
It is believed to date from the 8th dynasty (1570-1304 BC), although there was no mummy found inside to enable the tomb to be dated more precisely.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Latest On Kv 63
Lecture Report by Roy W. HopperFirst posted to EEF, and copied here with the very kind permission of author Roy W. Hopper, this psoting summarizes some of the key points in an account given by KV63 team member Dr Lorelei: "Dr. Lorelei Corcoran, director...