On February 8, 2006, the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that an American team led by the University of Memphis had uncovered a pharaonic-era tomb (KV63), the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamun's in 1922.
Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, travelled to Luxor to visit the new tomb on 10 February 2006, when the international press were also allowed their first glances through the breached door.
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Location = East Valley of the Kings|
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KV63 is the most recently opened chamber in Egypt's Valley of the Kings pharaonic necropolis.
KV63 |
The first stratigraphic excavation of the Valley ever attempted, among the features pinpointed (during the project's 2000 radar survey) was KV63, subsequently excavated by Otto Schaden then working for the University of Memphis.