Eight fruit-filled baskets and 20 sealed jars previously un-noticed by Egyptologists have been found concealed in a chamber adjoining the tomb of King Tutankhamun, a top Egyptian archaeologist said.
The 3,300-year-old find is highly surprising considering the vast number of visitors and researchers that have descended into the boy-pharaoh's tomb since British explorer Howard Carter discovered and broke into the treasure-packed burial place in the early 1920s.
Dr. Zahi Hawass, a world-famous Egyptologist who heads Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said his team of archaeologists had discovered baskets containing "large quantities of well-preserved doum [palm] fruits," and twenty pear-shaped vases bearing Tutankhamun's official seal.
The discovery is the second major find in three months for Hawass, who announced in June he had identified the mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's best-known female pharaoh and an ancestor of Tutankhamun.
Hawass's team reportedly found the provisions, intended to accompany Tutankhamun into the afterlife, in a treasure chamber next to the room where the king's elaborate, multi-layered coffin was discovered. It remains unclear whether Howard Carter saw the items, but they are not listed in his reports on the tomb.
Despite his short, relatively unimportant reign and early death, Tutankhamun shot to international fame after Carter's discovery, due to the hundreds of perfectly preserved luxury items discovered in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in a desert near modern-day Luxor.
As Tutankhamun's reign marked the end of the 'heretic' Armana period of Pharaonic Egypt when the traditional gods were rejected and the people were ordered to worship the god Aten via his intermediary the pharaoh, many items belonging to his 18th-Dynasty predecessors were bundled into his tomb, to seal the end of the era.
Concealed deep under the sand and forgotten, the burial place was left untouched for over three millennia, while many of the more illustrious Egyptian kings had their tombs looted from antiquity onwards. Tutankhamun's solid-gold funerary mask remains one of the most widely recognized symbols of ancient Egypt.
The boy-king's tomb, visited by thousands every year, is now largely empty, the contents having been moved to the Cairo Museum. However, his body - cut into pieces by Carter's team to recover the precious stones and amulets stuck to the mummy - remains in the tomb, in its inner sarcophagus.
Comment: Indeed, it is highly surprising discovery. Why now? What kind of game Zahi Hawass ('
a world-famous Egyptologist') is playing, and who's pulling his strings?
The entire structure of Egyptology rests on a fiction: the Bible. Egyptologists like Dr. Zahi Hawass have a role of maintaining this fiction, and we find it hard to believe that we would hear about such 'surprising discoveries' unless they had a purpose.
So we must ask again: what is going on and why now? Who is sending a message and to whom? Consider this:From SOTT podcast
"Mind Control, HAARP, and the Coming Catastrophe"Laura Knight Jadczyk said:
"So the question, of course, is since we see a certain condition prevailing in the World today where there is outrageous injustice and violence, and nobody is really putting their finger on the real issue and it's like Norman Finkelstein wrote in his book "Beyond Chutzpah", that at this point in time nobody disagrees with the facts of where, when and how Israel was formed, that there were 700 or 800 thousand Palestinians living in the Country, it was not empty, it was not void of population, and Great Britain had promised the Arabic population their own government in the Sikes-Picot agreement and then they turned around and made the Balfour declaration and this was, what?, 1917?
And essentially gave the land that they had already promised the Arabs to have their own government and gave it to someone else, out from under them. I mean, just think the enormous unfairness of this. This was so outrageous an act that it's hardly comprehensible. And getting into the why and wherefores, about that, of course at the time there was plenty of media manipulation and there was even an interesting event that took place right at that time that included Howard Carter who was the discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun and apparently there were several scrolls, manuscripts discovered in the tomb, and this was widely reported in the media for about a period of two weeks, and then it disappeared and all of a sudden it was covered up and it was said "Oh no, they mistook some rolls of linen" and it wasn't until several months later that apparently Howard Carter, in a... and this was after, of course, after Lord Carnarvon had died, mysteriously, I should add, that Howard Carter threatened the British officials with revealing the contents of the scrolls which were the true story of the Exodus, which is apparently found written on scrolls and papyrus in the tomb of Tutankhamun. And this was covered up, hushed up, by the British government."
Comment: Indeed, it is highly surprising discovery. Why now? What kind of game Zahi Hawass ('a world-famous Egyptologist') is playing, and who's pulling his strings?
The entire structure of Egyptology rests on a fiction: the Bible. Egyptologists like Dr. Zahi Hawass have a role of maintaining this fiction, and we find it hard to believe that we would hear about such 'surprising discoveries' unless they had a purpose. So we must ask again: what is going on and why now? Who is sending a message and to whom?
Consider this:
From SOTT podcast "Mind Control, HAARP, and the Coming Catastrophe"
Laura Knight Jadczyk said: