KV64

Kv 64 is the name which will take next the Hypogée (underground tomb) with being discovered in the Vallée of the Kings.

Assumption of Carl Reeves

Since mid-August the 2006 the Vallée of the kings is the subject of a new polemic. According to a British archeologist, Carl Nicholas Reeves, the valley will shelter a new tomb (number 64) which would not have been updated yet. Reeves is based on a study radar carried out in the year 2000 within the framework of the project ARTP. The data radar would have enabled him to locate this new fall (baptized Kv 64), near to the tomb of Toutânkhamon (Kv 62) as fall to it Kv 63 of which he asserts since February 28th 2006 the discovery.

Reeves affirms that its team had already located Kv 63 at the time of the study radar in 2000, it indicates: Because of the powerful interest caused per Kv 63, I concluded that the best option was not only to reveal the apparent existence of this second fall (Kv 64), but also its exact localization.

He affirms in addition that its goal is not to assert a price but to alert the world on the immense potential remaining in the valley of the kings, in two centuries spite of serious archaeological abuses.

It continues: The readings radar produced by our equipment were uniformly strong and impressive even more than the data which in 2000 alerted ARTP of the existence of Kv 63. Analyzes made by Hirokatsu Watanabe, specialist out of radar, confirm that it seems almost certain that the new data identify the presence of another tomb to a rather important depth.

This tomb could prove to be a lucky find of greatter importance than Kv 62 (Toutânkhamon) and Kv 63. Reeves thinks that it is suitable for shelter another burial of the Period amarnienne. But it specifies that the existence of Kv 64 is at this stage far from being proven because no excavation was undertaken. It is clear that the radar of the ARTP indicated a vacuum whose explanation in a necropolis cannot be that a tomb. He thinks that fall it, should be former to the tomb of Toutânkhamon. That it could be the place of burial of one or more queens of Amenhotep {{IV}}/Akhénaton (- 1353/52/-1338), perhaps fall it from Néfertiti itself.

François Tonic, editor association of Toutankhamon magazine , which had carried out an interview of the archeologist known as: Its advertisement is not based on a discovery, but on a calculation established starting from analyzes radar. Which show that there is an anomaly in the ground, rather deeply hidden, which could correspond to a tomb or a hiding-place. The valley of the kings is very known little about. It shelters in majority of the small tombs and their excavations were never made entirely.

The problem is that the current owner of the Supreme council of Egyptian Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, refuses to recognize the lucky find. According to him: Everyone can tell what he wants. Mr. Reeves already devoted himself in the past to this kind of speculations and seeks to draw the attention to him. The relations between Reeves and Hawass are tended since Reeves directed (1998) in the Vallée of the kings a vast project of studies geophysics, the Amarna Royal Tombs Project. Its license was revoked in 2002 after an unfounded charge of implication in a traffic of antiquities. Although cleared, it however never obtained the Council of antiquities the right to take again its research. Reeves is however largely recognized in the profession like a specialist in the Vallée of the kings and period known as amarnienne. It would be enough to undertake a beginning of excavations to raise the doubt.

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