Egypt
- Excavations In The Valley Of The Kings
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) A summary of the work currently being carried out in four areas of the Valley of the Kings. Two of the areas excavated - Nick Reeves's proposed site for "KV-64" and another possible tomb location proposed by Lyla Brock -...
- Nicholas Reeves Launches A New Website
www.nicholasreeves.com Thanks to Dr Nick Reeves for letting me know that he has recently launched a new website about his work in Egyptology at the above address. For those of you who aren't familiar with Nicholas Reeves, he has a long background...
- Kv64 Update
Luxor News For those of you unfamiliar with KV64, it is the most recently published discovery in the Valley of the Kings, identified so far only by radar. Dr Nick Reeves revealed the existence of the site on the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) website,...
- Breaking News: Kv64 - New Tomb Identified?
http://www.valleyofthekings.org/vofk/default.htmThanks very much indeed to the nameless hero who emailed me the following piece of breaking news, which has been unfolding on the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) website. Dr Nick Reeves, who updated the...
- Looking For Kv 64
Dr. Zahi Hawass is finally taking the Amarna Royal tombs project seriously and has started an investigation into an anomaly found years ago in the Valley of Kings. The anomaly was actually discovered in 2000 but due to false allegations that the projects...
Egypt
Response from Hawass to "KV64"
http://tinyurl.com/kag6f (usatoday.com)
It is no great surprise that the response of Zahi Hawass to the public release of news about the tentatively labled "KV64" by Nick Reeves has not bee particularly warm: "In a letter to USA TODAY, he writes, 'If what Mr. Reeves says is true, then why didn't he present this report to the Supreme Council of Antiquities.' He adds: 'Radar can also show anomalies that are not necessarily tomb shafts. It seems to me that Mr. Reeves wants publicity more than conducting his work through a scientific approach. For this reason, I am writing you to state that the information is not true.'
Reeves responds that he alerted Hawass and the Supreme Council to KV 64's location in August of 2005, but received no reply. 'Yes, I am clearly seeking publicity — but not for my own ends,' he says by e-mail. 'My sole ambition in this is to see archaeological work in the Valley of the Kings carried out with the care and attention it deserves and so desperately needs.'
Undoubtedly, the contested site will attract the attention of more researchers, who may resolve the question of its existence within the year. On Egyptology websites there is some support for a go-slow approach, and big doubts about whether Reeves will be allowed by Egypt to be part of any research in the area.
Reeves responds that he alerted Hawass and the Supreme Council to KV 64's location in August of 2005, but received no reply. 'Yes, I am clearly seeking publicity — but not for my own ends,' he says by e-mail. 'My sole ambition in this is to see archaeological work in the Valley of the Kings carried out with the care and attention it deserves and so desperately needs.'
Undoubtedly, the contested site will attract the attention of more researchers, who may resolve the question of its existence within the year. On Egyptology websites there is some support for a go-slow approach, and big doubts about whether Reeves will be allowed by Egypt to be part of any research in the area.
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- Excavations In The Valley Of The Kings
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) A summary of the work currently being carried out in four areas of the Valley of the Kings. Two of the areas excavated - Nick Reeves's proposed site for "KV-64" and another possible tomb location proposed by Lyla Brock -...
- Nicholas Reeves Launches A New Website
www.nicholasreeves.com Thanks to Dr Nick Reeves for letting me know that he has recently launched a new website about his work in Egyptology at the above address. For those of you who aren't familiar with Nicholas Reeves, he has a long background...
- Kv64 Update
Luxor News For those of you unfamiliar with KV64, it is the most recently published discovery in the Valley of the Kings, identified so far only by radar. Dr Nick Reeves revealed the existence of the site on the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) website,...
- Breaking News: Kv64 - New Tomb Identified?
http://www.valleyofthekings.org/vofk/default.htmThanks very much indeed to the nameless hero who emailed me the following piece of breaking news, which has been unfolding on the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) website. Dr Nick Reeves, who updated the...
- Looking For Kv 64
Dr. Zahi Hawass is finally taking the Amarna Royal tombs project seriously and has started an investigation into an anomaly found years ago in the Valley of Kings. The anomaly was actually discovered in 2000 but due to false allegations that the projects...