KV63
Kv 63 is the name given to the last tomb discovered in the Vallée of the kings, in the Nécropole thebaine on western bank of the the Nile vis-a-vis Louxor in Egypt, by the team of archeologists of the Université of Memphis (the United States) led by Otto J. Schaden. The preceding discovery went back to 1922, fall to it inviolate from the Pharaon Toutânkhamon (KV62).
She would have been discovered with four meters under the level of the ground, is buried under rubble and stones resulting from the posterior digging of tombs and natural crumbling, and hardly five meters of the tomb of Toutânkhamon.
The hypogean rectangular contained a score of large earthenware jars closed using royal seals and five Momie S with coloured funeral masks resting in inviolate wood sarcophagi.
The thorough study of the tomb will take time, but the first analyzes transmitted by Zahi Hawass (directing Supreme council of Egyptian Antiquities) let think that it would date from and that it was intended for the wife or to the son of a sovereign, or with a priest or an high ranking official of the court. It seems probable that this small hypogean (3 m ²) was envisaged in the beginning to receive only one sarcophagus. It is not known yet if the silent partner of the tomb belongs to the five found mummies nor if the objects present in the tomb are contemporary for him. The chaotic fitting of the earthenware jars lets think that the burial (at least the last) could have been carried out with haste.
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Report of France 2 (Video with the format Window Media Player of 1 minute 20 seconds).