Pharaoh's Tomb the first to be discovered since Tutankhamun's

[Ursa major]

I see that one of the archaeologists who discovered the first rock tomb of a Pharaoh since that of Tutankhamun is called Judith Bunbury. (Within a few years of his burial, the Pharoah was moved elsewhere, as the original tomb was subject to flooding.)

I'm hoping that Ms Bunbury is working on the team currently searching for the Pharoah's final resting place... and also hoping that if there's a TV programme about all this, it will be called The Importance of Being Thutmose II....

 

[KGeo777]

No! You will unleash the curse upon all of us!

 

[BAYLOR]

The Pharaoh's family should have sued the contractor that built that tomb.

 

[Ursa major]

It would fail if it turned out that the Pharaoh wanted a tomb with a water feature**.



** - Apparently, it was deliberately built near/under a waterfall (possibly to keep it hidden) but if there was any waterproofing for the tomb, it can't have been implemented*** properly).

*** - Somewhere I have a book about the people who built the tombs. Its content includes describing the world's earliest recorded strike action... over a reduction in the workers' pay and/or food (I can't recall which). The strike was a success.

 

[BAYLOR]

In the case of King Tut there's more then bit irony in the fact that he's one of the the best known Pharaohs . In life , he was a very minor Egyptian Pharaoh, had poor health and died age 19. His treasure is what made him famous and really nothing else.

 

[Ursa major]

And his tomb is tiny... even compared to the smaller ones... and there is at least one enormous. (I've been to the Valley of the Kings and been in one of the bigger ones (that of Rameses IX, I think) and Tutankamun's.