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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