Update on Tomb KV64 in the Valley of the Kings
Today Zahi Hawass has indicated that he may be close to finding the fabled sixty-fourth tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Dubbed tomb KV64, Hawass also suggests that early indications are of a tomb for Queen Ankhesenamun, the wife of Tutankhamun.
The story of KV64 is tortuous. Supposedly it has been found abouy half a dozen time over the past decade or so, but the reports keep petering out. Hopefully this time it is genuine. Hawass also suggested that it might be intact. If an intact tomb for Ankhesenamun was found, then then KV21A mummy linked by the DNA stiudies as a putative mother of the stillborn foetuses found in Tutankhamun’s own Valley of the Kings Tomb, can’t be Ankhesenamun. Again, it’s wait and see.
As I indicated on News from the Valley of the Kings, a firmly attributed mummy for any of Nefertiti’s daughters could transform our understanding of the DNA and relationsips of the late 18th Dynasty.