I watched yesterday a documentary on Discovery Knowledge about KV 63. The beauty of the findinds left me bewildered. The sarcophagus was incredibly beautiful, the face exumes a radiance not always matched in other sarcophagi. Unfortunately, at this stage, nothing has been recovered that gives us any clues to whom it may have belonged to. No other items recovered help us in any way.
However, the thing that annoyed me was the interview with Zahi Hawass. Mr Hawass affirms, just by looking at the sarcophagus, that the face reminds him of Tutankhamun's face on his sarcophagus (which is not even Tut's), so, it attributes the sarcophagus in KV 63 to Kiya which he calls mother of Tutankhamun and adds that Tut may have chosen to be buried in KV 62 so he could be beside his mother.
Now, this is science fiction!!!
There are no proofs that Kiya was Tut's mother, there are no proofs that KV63 belonged to her, there are no proofs that Kiya was buried in Kings Valley, there are no proofs that that sarcophagus belongs to her, we know KV62 was set in a hurry to contain King Tutankhamun's body...what is Zahi playing at?
Sensationalism? Publicity at every cost? Misleading?
It left a bad taste in my mouth....
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KV63 looks like it belonged to an Amarna period nurse. I got the chance to go hear Dr Otto speak recently and a slide show of some of the stuff that was coming from the tomb. They managed to clean up the far wooden sarcophagus a bit.
ReplyDeleteThe eyes are pretty close to ones in Tutankhamun's tomb. That is what Dr Hawass was refering to.
I'm guessing you saw one of the earlier shows they did on KV-63, they have updated info on their website. You should check out http://www.kv-63.com/
hi Becky, thanks for your reply. Yes, it must have been an earlier documentary. All the more reasons for Dr. Hawass to be more careful in his choices of ipothesis. It was likely that the tomb did belong to the Amarna period, but that is not proof enough to jump to conclusions attributing it to Kiya. I will definetely check the website, thanks a lot.
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