According
English amateur Egyptologist at least one of the seven coffins found in the newly discovered Egyptian tomb KV63 in the Valley of the Kings seems to have been previously opened, probably in the own age.For JFAlonso. Arqueotour News - http://egiptologiudo even originally be destined to a different individual.
Analyzing the photos of the coffins. Tracks of a re-use
Diaz-Montexano has made clear that there are very severe damage not seem only caused by the action of termites or moisture, amateur Egyptologist claims that you can see traces of destruction very severe but typical of the action of vandalism perpetrated by ancient grave robbers.
Details of the damage caused to the coffins. The heads were taken at least two of the seven coffins. CH TMLXC
However, in the photo of a child's coffin, published by the American expedition team from the University of Memphis, led by Dr. Otto Schaden, one can clearly see two lines of different joints between the joint body of the coffin and what would be your top lid, one is older and appears sealed and intact, and the other is more recent, probably made by the cut with some type of saw to cut wood. This latest joint line also features some minor deviations that reveal a perhaps a bit hasty action.
Details of the joints and cuts in the coffin forue we
before "cachette" or secondary burial. As I stated from the outset
they met the first images of tomb KV63, it is very likely to be a new burial
individuals who were attacked by grave robbers and could even come from different royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings of
same Dynasty XVIII dynasty or even of some immediateearlier or later. The evidence I think are quite accurate. Footprints
damage
not seem natural, and traces of
was believed that only they were 20 jars, about only five coffins, I proposed the hypothesis that they might actually be
Canopos Cups (four per individual) in a makeshift secondary burial done with some haste, and now finally it is that they are 28 jars, which continues to support my preliminary hypothesis, it is precisely
seven coffins, if these jars were improvised or
Canopic Jars Canopic Jars
symbolic ... "said Diaz-
, Amenophis I or Amenophis III ... "
" said Georgeos Diaz-Montexano for "Arqueotour News. For JFAlonso. Arqueotour News -
http://egiptologia.arqueotour.com - Madrid-10-2006.
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