News from the Valley of the Kings

While there is little new news, here is something from the past - videos of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project excavations in the Valley of the Kings in the early Noughties.

This one (Video 0 - Intro) is he first and somewhat dull with fairly low production standards:



Video 3 - Hoping has a commentary by Nicholas Reeves in which he explains what ARTP hoped could be found. He poses the question: where are Meketaten and the other princesses buried?



Video 7 - Found is a great video. This is a must watch. Nicholas Revees covers some of the key finds.



Video 8 - Ahead looks at what could be found in future. I won't spoil the surprise but is this where the missing tomb of the Amarnan royal women is located? Could there by two undiscovered tombs? As we know, the ARTP lost their concession and Hawass dug a slightly different area.



I have skipped several. If you want to see the others, search Google.

PS Why cannot we have videos of this quality from the Hawass digs?

Before 2008, KV64 was taken to mean a radar anomaly discovered by the Amarna Royal Tombs Project. ARTP had identified an anomaly which was later dug by Otto Shaden - which turned out to be a new tomb, KV63. ARTP, and the project's leader, received no credit for 'discovering' (if identifying a radar anomaly counts as discovery) the first new tomb in the Valley of the Kings for 75 years. Nicholas Reeves then leaked details of a second anomaly which became known as KV64. For the avoidance of doubt, that's not KV64 referred to in the other articles on this blog!

Reeves has now published much fuller details of the ARTP Radar Survey of the Valley of the Kings which identifies even more radar anomalies and speculates that some of these may be undiscovered small tombs like KV63. The article reproduces the radar scans.