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The first ever discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun’s in 1922 was found yesterday by an American excavation team from the University of Memphis. Culture minister Farouk Hosni announced. |
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Zahi Hawass secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the tomb was found 14.5 meters away from Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor west bank during the mission’s routine excavation work. The tomb’s doorway was reached at four meters beneath the ground level, crudely blocked with stones. |
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Visible through a small
opening in the blocks were seven intact anthropoid sarcophagi wearing coloured funerary masks and a large number of large storage jars. The
sarcophagi contain mummies that date to the 18th dynasty, which for an
unknown reason they were buried rapidly in the small tomb. Eight pits have
also been located and archaeologists have suggested that they are stairs
used by ancient Egyptians to enter and exit the tomb. |
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“This is the fourth ever discovered cachet in Luxor,” asserted Hawass and
continued that the first one was found by Adbel Rassul family in 1887
where 40 intact royal mummies were unearthed, the second was the cachet of
Amun’s priest in 1891 where 100 sarcophagi of Amun priests were found
while the third was in 1898 where 12 royal mummies were uncovered inside
king Amenhotep II’s tomb. |
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