![]() "They said it before Howard Carter found King Tutankhamun's tomb and they said it after. "People have been saying the valley was done for 100 years," she said. The discovery has come as a surprise to many, Ms Podzorski said. The tomb, found in a field near Città della Pieve, about 30 miles southwest of Perugia, had been partially buried in a landslide, according to local news outlet Perugia Today. The sarcophagi were buried rapidly in the small tomb for an unknown reason. "Underneath these workmen's huts, they found a shaft."įour metres below the ground was a single chamber containing sarcophagi with coloured funerary masks and more than 20 large storage jars bearing Pharaonic seals. "They were working in front of the tomb looking for foundation deposits possibly related to that tomb, and clearing away some workmen's huts from the 19th Dynasty that were both to the left and right side of the tomb," she explained. "The excavation team was focused on the tomb of a 19th Dynasty pharaoh, King Amenmesses," Patricia Podzorski, curator of Egyptian Art at the University of Memphis, told the BBC's World Tonight. The team of archaeologists had not been looking for it. It is the 63rd tomb to be discovered since the valley was first mapped in the 18th century, and was unexpectedly found only five metres away from King Tutankhamun's. The newly-found tomb is thought to date from the 18th Pharaonic Dynasty, the first dynasty of the New Kingdom which ruled between 1539BC and 1292BC and made its capital in Thebes, now Luxor. Archaeologists have found ten well preserved crocodile mummies dating back possibly more than 2,500 years at an undisturbed Egyptian tomb which were likely sacrificed to a fertility god. For instance, KV 64, a small tomb discovered in 2011by a University of Basel. The Valley of the Kings, near the city of Luxor in southern Egypt, was used for burials for around 500 years from 1540BC onwards. When the undiscovered tombs those that do exist are unearthed, they may not hold their original occupants. "It's believed that the burials there, which included Nefertiti and some of her daughters, were brought back to the Theban area, and the Valley of the Kings would be the obvious place." "Nefertiti was probably buried to the north of Egypt at a place called Akhetaten," he told BBC News24. Carter and Carnarvon English archaeologist Howard Carter (1874 - 1939) whose discoveries include the tomb of Tutankhamen (in 1922). ![]() What lay within King Tut's tomb astounded the world. Bob Partridge, of Ancient Egypt magazine, said it could possibly be the tomb of Queen Nefertiti, who co-ruled Egypt between 13 BC. Carter had discovered not just an unknown ancient Egyptian tomb, but one that had lain nearly undisturbed for over 3,000 years. ![]()
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