Egypt to announce huge archaeological discovery in Luxor this March

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World Renowned Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass has revealed he is leading excavations beside the temple of Mina Habu in Luxor, and will announce a major discovery next month.

In an interview with Daily News Egypt, Hawass said that he is now currently working in the western part of the Valley of the Kings to find the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. This is running alongside additional work at the tomb of the Pharaoh Ramses II, also in Luxor.

He highlighted that the discovery of Queen Nefertiti's tomb will be the greatest discovery of the 21st Century.

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Daily News Egypt

Could Nefertiti's final resting place finally have been discovered?

 

[VorpalNonsense]

Neat

 

[TheMadTitan]

They're going to reveal we have it right with the slot machines.

For real though, I don't think this is it. Every time they think they've found someone's tomb, it's always something slightly related. They might be close, but no cigar.

 

[Ducarmel]

A Stargate

 

[Jedi2016]

Historically, they never seem to find what they're actually looking for. So it'll be something neat, but it won't be Nefertiti's tomb.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

A sarcophagus filled with ancient Coca Cola

 

[softtack]

In before Apocalypse references.

 

[Mengy]

 

[Engell]

 

[Deleted member 16516]

A sarcophagus filled with ancient Coca Cola

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Add that to one of Imhotep's inventions.

 

[iksenpets]

They dug up the gods. They're all real.

 

[gforguava]

I see more announcements for announcements than actual announcements these days.

edit: Oh, and it is clearly going to be Hawkman related. Gotta start that Black Adam hype campaign.

 

[Forerunner]

ayy lmao

 

[Tavernade]

I was wondering what he was up to. He was in a TON of documentaries back in the day and his complete absence from stuff I've read and watched over the past few years made me a little worried.

Maybe we'll get lucky and there'll be a great documentary about whatever it is. That Saqqara Tomb doc on Netflix was incredible (and ended with a cliff hanger).

 

[Weegian]

More bone juice?

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I was wondering what he was up to. He was in a TON of documentaries back in the day and his complete absence from stuff I've read and watched over the past few years made me a little worried.

Maybe we'll get luck and there'll be a great documentary about whatever it is. That Saqqara Tomb doc on Netflix was incredible (and ended with a cliff hanger).

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I watched that just the other day. It is excellent.

 

[Poppy]

surprise it's more dead people

 

[Tavernade]

I watched that just the other day. It is excellent.

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I REALLY hope they had a crew ready for the sequel it so clearly set up. I do feel like I looked into it awhile back and it seemed unlikely...

 

[ZeroRay]

I'd love it if they found an Old Kingdom sarcophagus.

Edit: just read it was in the Valley of Kings so probably not lol

 

[Zombine]

Ancient aliens

 

[Lebron]

Put it back

 

[Gaius Cassius]

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Ancient Analog Internet

 

[SquirrelSr]

For a moment, I thought they were announcing that they finally found a complete skeleton of Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus.

 

[Proxy-Pie]

Oh look, my profile pic lol.

I don't think it'll be Nefertiti/Neferuneferuaten unforunately, but I hope it's big news either way!

 

[Dekuman]

Finding Alexander the Great's tomb would be huge, but Luxor isn't where i'd expect him to be.

 

[Xeonidus]

They dug up the gods. They're all real.

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Lol can you imagine? That would be an earth shattering discovery that would rewrite our history.

 

[mreddie]

Are they reopening the Esports Arena?

Oh the actual Luxor

 

[Yiazmat]

Could Nefertiti's final resting place finally have been discovered?

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[The Silver]

They've unleashed Imhotep

 

[colorblindmode]

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I am wildly uncomfortable

 

[VAD]

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Thanks for the nightmares!

 

[Barbarossa]

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I was about to say don't even make it an event if it isn't the Stargate, but thank you.

 

[Santar]

Someone get Brendan Fraser on the phone, they've finally found Arnold Vosloo!

 

[olag]

Death is only the beginning......

 

[Sunster]

new mummy about to drop

 

[Sargerus]

They found one of them

 

[Belfast]

They dug up the gods. They're all real.

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Horus walkin' around with that Hank Hill ass.

 

[GravaGravity]

Got to build hype for Egypt Direct

 

[Oozer]

 

[Deleted member 30411]

I'm only in for another superb chair throw. Anything less and I will be disappointed.

 

[Seductivpancakes]

Came for stargate references.

 

[Lucreto]

They found the slab

 

[DiipuSurotu]

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Wow Nirrti was jacked

 

[Almeister]

No updates on this yet, right?

 

[Deleted member 16516]

No updates on this yet, right?

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It seems like more discoveries have been made at Saqqara:

The tourism and antiquities ministry said the "major discoveries" made by a team of archaeologists headed by famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass also included more than 50 sarcophagi.

The wooden sarcophagi, which date back to the New Kingdom, were found in 52 burial shafts at depths of 10 to 12 meters (40 feet), the ministry said in a statement.

It quoted Hawass as saying that the "funerary temple of Queen Naert, the wife of King Teti" as well as three warehouses made of bricks were found on the site.

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Egypt makes 'major discoveries' at Saqqara archaeological site - France 24

Egypt makes 'major discoveries' at Saqqara archaeological site

www.france24.com

While not Nefertiti, it's still a signficant discovery along with all the other artifacts uncovered.