Egypt's New Tomb Revealed: "Please God, We Want a Mummy"
The dig team gets their first look at two sarcophogi in the rear corner of the tomb after removing a youth-sized coffin from on top of them.
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Egypt's New Tomb Revealed: "Please God, We Want a Mummy"
The dig team gets their first look at two sarcophogi in the rear corner of the tomb after removing a youth-sized coffin from on top of them.
Added: May 31, 2006 Views: 18155 Views Runtime: 01:25
Witness Dr. Salima Ikram pull two inscriptions from a jar found in KV 63. Otto Schaden later reveals the probable source of one fragment: An 18th Dynasty wine jar.
Dr. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, describes his excitement at getting to open a sealed coffin in the Valley of the Kings.
A DNA test confirms that the unidentified mummy from KV55 is a genetic match with Amenhotep III and thus must be his son Akhenaton, the likely father of Tutankhamun.