Intact tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings

reuters ^ | February 9, 2006 | staff

[SunkenCiv]

Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
BBC History | September 5, 2002 | Dr Marc Gabolde
Posted on 07/30/2004 9:42:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181802/posts

[blam]

"Gee, I hope that Dr. Zahi Hawass turns up :)."

There! Now the thread is complete.

[SunkenCiv]

He has a difficult job, just keeping his head on his shoulders.

[AdmSmith]

Yup, that's strange. Not even a picture of Dr Hawass.

Wait for tomorrow, then you will see him.

[stainlessbanner]

It's very small and cramped but it is late 18th dynasty

That's how I feel about my office.

[ArrogantBustard]

Cool! not even 20 posts, and we have the first reference to the Goa'uld.

[Antoninus]

Rapidly buried, untouched grave, group burial. I say they died of a very contagious disease.

More likely their original burial place was partially plundered soon after their interment and they we re-buried hastily and secretly by the devout.

[mass55th]

It's King Rooten Tooten.

[zakbrow]

Watch out for preserved symbiotes in the coptic jars...

Better get the gate ready...just in case. :-)

LOL Good one!

[MeanWestTexan]

"More likely their original burial place was partially plundered soon after their interment and they we re-buried hastily and secretly by the devout."

Yeah, but my scenario would make for a better movie.

[Berosus]

Gee, I hope that Dr. Zahi Hawass turns up :).

Oh he will, no doubt about that. Last year I managed to collect ten pictures of Egyptian scientists removing Tutankhamen's remains from his sarcophagus, running him through a CAT scanner, and putting him back afterwards. Zahi was in all but one of them. What a ham.

[R. Scott]

Dr. Hawass wouldn't miss it. I hope the a network preempts for the show.

[Babu]

He has a difficult job, just keeping his head on his shoulders.

Egypt's flogger deluxe' greatest difficulty is getting his swollen noggin through those various passageways and doorways ...

[MillerCreek]

Yes, that this sure suggests that they died of a contagious disease.

AND it also explains well why their tomb has never been "plundered." I often wondered about that as to Tutenkamun also, at least, almost certainly, there would be rumors about such in his case, given that his tomb was attempted to be plundered but that once opened (and almost certainly once plunderers realized whose tomb it was and what meaning that had), it was quickly shut down again without accessing the actual burial chamber of Tutenkamun.

I'm thinking that it might probably have been tuberculosis or the plague. Many people just may have assumed/concluded that King Tut had one or the other or similar given his circumstances, which would've been good cover for political espionage, also).

Those tomb robbers with so many centuries to do their deeds...I'm sure they avoided the few certain tombs only for dire reasons.

[Max in Utah]

Watch out for preserved symbiotes in the coptic jars...

Or the canopic jars.

Anyway... they had a lot of guts, those Egyptians.

[adam_az]

"I actually have a soft spot for ol' Zowie. He's such a shameless self-promoter and Indiana Jones type...and his enthusiasm is infectious."

I think he's a jerk who pooped all over that woman who most likely found Nefertiti because what she found didn't fit his theories. If anything, he's a big detriment to foreigners working in Egypt.

[adam_az]

"Anyway... they had a lot of guts, those Egyptians."

Makes you wonder how someone decided oke day, "Hey guys I have a cool idea! Let's cut out his guts and put them in jars!"

"Dude that would be so cool, let's do it!"

[frgoff]

Yeah, yeah.

Well, they say when you get older the first three things that go are your looks, your stamina.....and....I forget the other one.

[SunkenCiv]

There's a bunch of articles online now, this is the most recent I've seen:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11252094/

Given the existence of a pit tomb (no remains), also probably of late 18th dynasty, and KV55's chaotic contents, I'm still pulling for these mummies to be from the royal family of the Amarna period.

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_869.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_868.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_872.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_837.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_835.html
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_854.html

[SunkenCiv]

Having seen the video (I got the DVD for Xmas), I'd have to say that the woman who claims to have identified Nefertiti A) made this ID before she ever set foot in KV35, B) discovered no evidence to support the claim, C) discovered evidence that mitigates against her claim, and D) didn't acknowledge the work (available online) of Marianne Luban, who has been claiming the same mummy ID for quite a while now. At least some of the mummies in KV35 were put there as a cache, after having been desecrated in their original tombs.

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_849.html
http://www.geocities.com/scribelist/dowehave1st.htm
http://www.geocities.com/scribelist/kv55.htm