Discovery of a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV 64

University of Basel Kings' Valley Project ^ | January 16, 2012 | Dr. Susanne Bickel

[SunkenCiv]

During the season of 2011, three edges of an unknown manmade feature appeared at 1.80m to the north of KV 40, on the 25th of January, the first day of the Egyptian revolution. Due to the situation, it was immediately covered with an iron door.

As this structure is so close to KV 40 and as it was impossible to know whether it was just a short unfinished shaft or a real tomb, we gave it the temporary number 40b. This number is now replaced by the final designation KV 64. The KV numbers should definitely be used exclusively for real tombs or deposits and not for possible cavities and yet unascertained structures.

This season, work was resumed on January 8th. With the permission of the Ministry of State of Antiquities we started to work on the unknown structure.

It soon turned out to be a rock-cut tomb of the 18th dynasty, 15th century BCE. In the shaft the upper edge of the door appeared at a depth of about 2.5m. The shaft measures approximately 1.10m by 1.60m. Its fill showed no evidence of being affected by flood water.

In the blocking of the entrance, two stages of use could be observed. Large stones in front and over the entrance belong to a secondary occupation. Of the primary phase dating to the 18th dynasty, some 0.50cm of the plaster seal of the entrance and a Nile silt flower pot with remnants of this plaster remain on the floor of the shaft.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

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Be sure to check the KV64 keyword, I think there's more from the radar survey by Nick Reeves, just before the Egyptians banned him from digging and prosecuted him for allaged export of antiquities. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[bigheadfred]

Yes. I stole this from Wikipedia.

"KV64" is the tomb of Temple Karnak singer the Lady Ni Hams Bastet in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. It dates to the 22nd Dynasty and is located on the pathway to Tomb KV34 (Thuthmosis III) in the main Valley of the Kings, which is why KV34 was closed to visitors in early 2012. KV64 was found accidently by Dr Elena Pauline-Grothe of the University of Basel. KV64 was a designation tentatively given to a radar anomaly (and suspected tomb) detected by the use of ground-penetrating radar by the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP)[1], led by Nicholas Reeves, in the autumn of 2000. No actual tomb was uncovered there.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Temple singers were a bit like our Gospel singers today—The Egyptians used lots of entertainment in their worship—music, dance, etc... Maybe even special effects.

[Tucker39]

Their strobe lights, lasers and fog machines were somethin’ else!

[Vide]

I really struggle to take pieces that use “BCE” seriously.

[tumblindice]

I’ve still got one of her albums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_j8A1__NA&feature=related
Near the end she starts chanting and really brings it home.

[bigheadfred]

And why not? If you can’t have fun, what is the point?

[JohnG45]

I really struggle to take pieces that use “BCE” seriously.

Yeah. How and where did that "BCE" come from? Was there a vote taken to change it from "BC"? Or was it just the "enlightened ones" who decided to change it for the rest of us?

[ApplegateRanch]

Nice discovery.

Question: does the KV64 apply to both the newer & earlier burials, with a suffix added; or will the lower, older burial get a separate KV designation? I just don’t know how that works.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

thanks bhf! This means last week’s story about the tomb of the ancient temple singer was an earlier topic about this same discovery, mea culpa. Here’s a story about Nicholas Reeves’ team find, posted back in August of 2006 C.E. ;’)

Another new tomb in the Valley of the Kings: ‘KV64’
Valley of the Kings Foundation ^ | 31 July 2006 | Nicholas Reeves
Posted on 08/04/2006 6:20:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1678072/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Almost 3,000-year-old tomb of female singer found in Egypt
PHYSorg | January 16, 2012 | AFP
Posted on 01/16/2012 11:38:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2833636/posts

[SunkenCiv]

I’ll try that link in a minute. Wow, the explanatory text... he may be a little ‘gone’... my kinda chanter... :’)

[ZULU]

They should LEAVE IT. The Maniacs who now control Egypt will be on a destruction spree reminiscent of the burning of the monasteries and monastic library under Henry VIII and the actions of the Puritans under Cromwell.

[SunkenCiv]

It’ll be something to watch the transformation of the United Nations when the jihadists demolish the pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza — that’s a World Heritage Site, but after Muzzies destroy the whole thing, there will be barely a peep out of the UN.

[ZULU]

That’s what I believe also. Barely a whimper over the burning of the Napoleonic Library.

These people are savages - maniacs. Every last one of them.

[Vide]

LOL.

When they came for BC, I said nothing because I’m not a chronologist.

When they came for Peking, I said nothing because I’m not a duck.

When they came for Calcutta, I said nothing because I don’t have a black hole.

When they came for the pedantic old fogies there was no one left to defend me.

[Cincinna]

  

Thanks, Civ     

The fate of archaeology, and the art objects and statuary found in the Valley of the Kings and temples all over Egypt are in grave danger of destruction with the Moslem Brotherhood in power. They believe they are a violation of the Koran.       

Never forget the fate of the magnificent Bamiyan Buddhas carved out of solid rock in a mountain side in Afghanistan blown to smithereens by the Taliban.    

BAMIYAN BUDDHA BEFORE & AFTER

[Cincinna]

BRAVO! Vide!