Tomb discovered next to King Tut's Valley of the Kings burial site

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Feb 8, 2006, 15:18 GMT

Cairo - An American archaeological mission discovered a tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings next to the burial place of King Tut, Egyptian antiquities authorities announced Wednesday. An excavation team from the University of Memphis made the find Tuesday 5 metres from Tutankhamun's tomb while the mission was doing routine excavation work, said Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Some three metres beneath the ground, the tomb contained five human mummies with coloured funerary masks enclosed in sarcophagi and several large storage jars. The mummies date to the 18th dynasty (circa 1539-1292 BC). © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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fifiDec 20th, 2008 - 23:30:10

king tut is very amazing.I LOVE HISTORY!

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