Archeology Team Finds Tomb in Egypt
American archeologists have uncovered a Pharaonic-era tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamen’s in 1922, Egypt’s antiquities chief announced.
The tomb’s spare appearance suggests it was not dug for a pharaoh, said U.S. archeologist Kent Weeks, who was not involved in the University of Memphis team’s find but has seen photographs of the site. “It could be the tomb of a king’s wife or son, or of a priest or court official,” he said Thursday.
The 18th Dynasty tomb included five mummies in intact sarcophagi with colored funerary masks, along with more than 20 large storage jars with their seals intact, Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in a statement Wednesday.
American archeologist Otto Schaden, who headed the team that uncovered the site, declined to answer questions.
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