On 8 February2006, it was announced that his team had discovered KV63, an intact chamber at first thought to be a tomb. The tomb was slowly excavated from March to July 2006 and appears to have been a mummification storage area for another royal tomb--possibly an unsanctioned tomb prematurely labeled KV64. KV63, is located approx. 45 feet from the Tomb of Tutankhamun KV62. Conservation and examination of the chamber's contents, consisting of seven coffins (including a youth and infant size coffin) and twenty-eight large storage jars filled with artifacts. Bands of text on some of the coffins are being examined to determine names and titles.
Dr. Schaden taught the Middle Egyptian language at the University of Minnesota in the early 1970s.
Most recently, Harper's magazine for January 2008 contains a long essay by Gregory Jaynes about his March 2006 visit to the KV63 tomb, in which he describes Otto Schaden's dispute with his superior Lorelei Corcoran from the University of Memphis.[1] In mid-January, the University of Memphis and Dr. Schaden severed their relationship and Schaden's research will continue under the auspices of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, which is now representing Schaden's project, a very unusual move because most are conducted under a University. Dr. Schaden is currently recovering from an illness, but he plans to return to Egypt by the end of February 2008. [2]
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