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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 excellent TT99 website, were completed some years ago (I believe in 2002). However, here's the news item anyway - see the Yahoo page above for the rest.
- More Re Nehmes Bastet
BBC News Nothing much new here, apart from the confirmation that an intact mummy was found within the coffin as predicted. A useful round-up. Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb...
- More Re New Vok Discovery
Yahoo News 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 Truth In The Search For Nefertiti
In a very flawed article from the Archaeology News Network, the former head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Zahi Hawass disputes Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves theory that the tomb of Nefertiti will be found behind the painted walls...
- The Mummy On The Boat
In the summer 2012 issue of KMT magazine we find on pages 34 and 35 images recently found in Milan's Egyptology archives. One photograph of the mummy on the boat found in the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of Kings, KV35 displays the position...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
Egypt
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 excellent TT99 website, were completed some years ago (I believe in 2002). However, here's the news item anyway - see the Yahoo page above for the rest.
Archaeologists have discovered the 3,000-year-old mummy of a high priest to the god Amun in the southern city of Luxor, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass told the official MENA news agency on Saturday.The 18th Dynasty mummy of Sennefer was unearthed in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings -- one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world -- by a team from Britain's Cambridge University.
"The mummy was found in tomb 99 in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of Luxor," Hawass said. A high priest was considered to be the most important man after the king, performing duties, religious rituals and offerings on his behalf.Other mummies were found during the excavation, including one with a brain tumour, a foetus, a female mummy wrapped in plaster and others which appeared to have suffered from arthritis, Hawass said.
- More Re Nehmes Bastet
BBC News Nothing much new here, apart from the confirmation that an intact mummy was found within the coffin as predicted. A useful round-up. Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb...
- More Re New Vok Discovery
Yahoo News 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 Truth In The Search For Nefertiti
In a very flawed article from the Archaeology News Network, the former head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Zahi Hawass disputes Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves theory that the tomb of Nefertiti will be found behind the painted walls...
- The Mummy On The Boat
In the summer 2012 issue of KMT magazine we find on pages 34 and 35 images recently found in Milan's Egyptology archives. One photograph of the mummy on the boat found in the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of Kings, KV35 displays the position...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...