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Egypt Offers First Peek at New Tombs
In this image released by the Egyptian Antiquities Authority on Feb. 9, 2006, an archaeologist works in a shaft leading to a new tomb discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, outside Luxor, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006. American archaeologists have uncovered a pharaonic-era tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamun's in 1922, Egypt's antiquities chief announced. (AP Photo/Supreme Council of Antiquities)
Newest Pharaonic Tomb
WHAT THEY DID: Opened the last of eight sarcophagi found in the first tomb discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 80 years.
WHAT THEY FOUND: Not a mummy, but something more special: embalming materials and ancient woven flowers.
WHOSE TOMB WAS IT? King Tut's mother, some experts believe. Others say it was a secret embalming chamber used by the pharaohs.
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This is very cool. How excited would you be if you just stumbled upon some new tomb?
#1 - Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:04 AM ESTThe sands are deep and there are probably more out there to find, I wouldn't be surprised if there were more tombs. Isn't the Valley of the Kings a Necropolis anyways?
#2 - Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:55 AM ESTI wonder if a couple of thousand years from now, archeologists of the future may stumble across new burial sites in wonder and amazement at places we now call "cemetaries?"
#3 - Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:05 PM ESTI wonder if a couple of thousand years from now, archeologists of the future may stumble across new burial sites in wonder and amazement at places we now call "cemetaries?"
I can only imagine what they will think when they find some of things people today are buried with...
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