Exclusive Video: Minister of Antiquities talks about the latest news on the search behind the walls of King Tut's tomb

On Wednesday evening Luxor celebrated the 93^rd anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamon’s tomb which was held at Hatshepsut temple at Deir El Bahari.

 

At the event, the editor of Luxor Times was talking with the Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Mamdouh El Damaty. Most of the conversation was regular friendly chat “off the record”.

Then the minister was asked to answer one question on video for Luxor Times readers without prior notice of what the question would be.

You can watch the short video below.

Bottom line is:  The Infrared Thermo graphic scanning which will take place on Thursday and Friday is a primary step on the way to examine very carefully what could be behind the walls of KV62 (tomb of the Golden King) according to Dr. Nicholas Reeves’ hypothesis.

The confirmed results will be announced when the ministry officials see appropriate and announce the following step.

Videos of Dr. Nicholas Reeves and the Minister of Antiquities talking about the search for “the hidden chambers behind the walls of King Tut’s tomb” can be found on Luxor Times Youtube Channel HERE

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Statue robbers were arrested including an antiquities inspector

The robbers who stole a statue from Mit Rahina warehouse at the end of last year were arrested. 

Dr. Mamdouh El Damaty, Minister of Antiquities, said that one of the robbers is an inspector who replaced the statue with a fake copy and smuggled the original statue to Belgium. 

The Minister clarified that the original statue was repatriated back to Egypt from Belgium a few months ago.

The statue is a double seated limestone dated to the Middle Kingdom.  

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The white wall of Egypt's oldest capital discovered by Russian archaeologists

The Russian mission working at Mit Rahina village on a concessions consists of 3 parts (Kom Tuman, Kom Dawbabi and Tell Aziziya) has successfully discovered a part of the white wall the once surrounded Memphis, the first capital of ancient Egypt at Kom Tuman.

Minister of antiquities, Dr. Mamdouh El Damaty announced today.

The mission director Dr. Galina A Belova said "A number of pottery making ovens and bronze tools were also found. The excavations will continue and we will be working on unearthing the rest of the wall as well as any archaeological elements which could help us to know more about this early period of the Egyptian history."

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