NEW TOMB FIND IN VALLEY OF THE KINGS
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[ February 11th 2006 ]

A team of archaeologists have discovered the first new tomb uncovered in the Valley of the Kings since that of King Tutankhamun in 1922. The tomb, which has five wooden sarcophagi with painted funeral masks, probably contains members of an 18th Dynasty pharaoh's court, Edwin Brock, co-director of the University of Memphis excavating team, told The Associated Press.

"It was a wonderful thing. It was just so amazing to find an intact tomb here after all the work that's been done before. This was totally unexpected," Brock said. "I don't think it's a royal tomb, maybe members of the court," he said. "Contemporaries of Tutankahmun are possible - or of Amunhotep III or even Horemheb," he said.

The Valley Of The Kings is a valley in Egypt where tombs were built for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom, the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. It stands on the west bank of the Nile, across from Thebes (modern Luxor), under the peak of the pyramid-shaped mountain Al-Qurn.

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