Zahi Entertains the Gathering
FORA TV has a video online featuring Dr Zahi Hawass, speaking at the Entertainment Gathering 2008 held in Monterey, California earlier this month.
Hawass discusses his exploration of the shafts of the Great Pyramid, investigating the tunnels under the sphinx, identifying mummies through CT scans, and current excavations at the Valley of the Kings. As always, Zahi’s stage precense is entertaining and engaging as he recounts some of his accomplishments over the years.
Zahi Hawass Unlocks the Secrets of the Pyramids
The program runs for half an hour but is broken into ten chapters.
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Brilliant post.
A most informative lecture by Dr Hawass, as near as we are going to get to press release about what is going on, particularly in the VOC.
He appears to be looking for the entrance to the radar contact Nicholas Reeves & ARTP called KV64
(http://www.nicholasreeves.com/item.aspx?category=Comment&id=81)
No it is NOT the anomaly.
(now published see Cross Stephen W. ‘The Hydrology of the Valley of the Kings, Egypt’, in JEA 94, 2008)
Steve Cross brought the anomaly to the attention of N. Reeves who had apparently shelved the results without realizing that they might have some significance. Reeves then later mentioned it on the ARTP site.
Reeves tried to claim that this anomaly led Prof Schaden to the discovery of KV63, it did not, neither will it be connected with the next find, it is not deep enough.
The area now being dug is in a different place, though close-by,
namely to the immediate south and south-west of the huts.
Tombs are now numbered as they are found, so depending on whether the Merenptah area dig is indeed a tomb, this one will be KV64 or KV65. The Egyptian in charge of the dig is Afifi Ghoname .
N. Reeves has placed an updated analysis of the scans done in 2000 on his web site http://www.nicholasreeves.com. After 8 years the data can now be used in the search for new tombs or caches. There seems to be a large number of anomalies in the Valley floor. However, the present dig in front of the Rest House was started in November 2008 to prove the Cross Flood Theory, without any updated information from these scans. Reeves had allocated the number 64 to what he now calls Feature 5. The present dig, if indeed a tomb, may be numbered KV64 by the SCA,(unless the dig near KV8 turns out to be a tomb first). This would not be the same one as theorised by Reeves.
Very Interesting and informative follow up.
I am still of the view that he is probably looking for, or may find, an entrance to feature kv64, the entrance won’t necessarily be immediately above the anomaly feature.
If I understand what Dr Hawass has said already, he thinks he has 2 tombs, one on either side of kv8 Merenptah. An entrance in front of the Rest house would make 3.
Looking at Reeves’s new plan, – the trench in front of the rest house is after ‘feature 2′, and in his talk he links this with Nefertiti!