I expect that its going to turn out to be another embalmers' cache
like KV63 rather than anything really spectacular. And I'd bet
anything that the biggest stumbling block right now is Hawass'
colossal ego.
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:06:09 -0700, heremon <kevin.kirby@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Oct 18, 1:00 pm, Ripley59 <riple...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kv64
>>
>> Just wondering if there have been any new developments?
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>
>Only that it could hold the key to identifying Nefertititi's and
>Akhenaten's mummies, solving the mysteries involving tombs labelled
>for young Tut but containing others, and explaining why Tut's final
>resting place has the standard floor plan of a queen's tomb.
>
>A lot of things happened after Akhetaten was abandoned, and a lot of
>tomb-building work had to be restarted during that post "sun-
>wor****ppers" economic crisis. One would expect that any pits around
>KV62 would be excavated in a frenzy of curiousity, so this lazy
>attitude toward KV64 seems rather odd.
>
>Perhaps there are political or theological reasons for the apparent
>stonewalling.
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