Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt

Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt




Inside the tomb
Archaeologists have discovered an intact, ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first since King Tutankhamun's was found in 1922.
A team led by the University of Memphis found the previously unknown tomb complete with unopened sarcophagi and five undisturbed mummies.

The archaeologists have not yet been able to identify them.

The Valley of the Kings near Luxor in southern Egypt was used for burials for around 500 years from 1540BC onwards.

The tomb, the 63rd discovered since the valley was first mapped in the 18th century, was unexpectedly found only five metres away from King Tutankhamun's, a member of the team told the BBC's World Tonight...cont'd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4700032.stm


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Egypt opens new tomb found in Valley of Kings
First such discovery since Tutankhamun’s in 1922 stirs excitement

CAIRO, Egypt - Through a partially opened underground door, Egyptian authorities gave a peek Friday into the first tomb uncovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut’s in 1922. U.S. archaeologists said they discovered the tomb by accident while working on a nearby site.

Still unknown is whose mummies are in the five wooden sarcophagi with painted funeral masks, surrounded by alabaster jars inside the undecorated single-chamber tomb.

The tomb, believed to be some 3,000 years old and dating to the 18th Dynasty, does not appear to be that of a pharaoh. But it could be for members of a royal court, said Edwin Brock, co-director of the University of Memphis in Tennessee that discovered the site...cont'd

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

It makes me feel so young.

Those bog corpses are so recent looking....creepy and fascinating. All that DNA, skin and hair info right there. Not sure about either theory of how/why they died though.

hmmm, and probably died from ritual sacrifice... ::havocmom wanders off having delightful day dream::

Hmmm....maybe that would explain their mysterious end.

You don't think that the only Serial Killers would be in Modern times, do you?

And the Bogs have always been a place of refuge for outlaws. The "Bogeymen" that would spirit a child off to doom are almost certainly an echo of outlaws living in the bogs.

it's a hoot!

:D