We are now within the sacred territory of Akhenaten's holy city,
Akhetaten, better known to most people as El-Amarna . The present appearance of
this once great and famous city is not imposing . The area is located on the
east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 58
km ( 36 miles ) south of the city of al-Minya .
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
Tombs : KV59 – KV60 - KV61 .. The last part of The Valley of the Kings
Are unidentified and uninscribed, but KV60 was known
for the nurse " Sit-Ra, called In ", and it contained burials of
the nurses of Tuthmosis IV or Hatshepsut .
KV56 : The Gold Tomb & KV58 : The Chariot Tomb .. Part ( 36 )
KV56 – The Gold Tomb
In 5 January 1908, Mr. Edward Russell Ayrton and Mr. Theodore
Monroe Davis discovered in this tomb part of the jewellery of Queen Tausret and
Seti II, which had perhaps been cached here by Setnakht, when he usurped KV14,
the queen's tomb . This tomb is uninscribed and unidentified .
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