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Egyptologists had lost interest in the site of tomb 5, which had been

explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to

a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that

lay only 200 ft. from King Tut's resting place which was beyond a few

rubble strewn rooms that previous excavators had used to hold their

debris.



Dr. Kent Weeks, an Egyptologist with the American University in Cairo,

wanted to be sure the new parking facility wouldn't destroy anything

important. Thus, Dr. weeks embarked in 1988 on one final exploration of

the old dumping ground. Eventually he was able to pry open a door

blocked for thousands of years, and announced the discovery of a life

time. "We found ourselves in a corridor," he remembers. "On each side

were 10 doors and at end there was a statue of Osiris, the god of the

afterlife."



The tomb is mostly unexcavated and the chambers are choked with debris,

Weeks is convinced that......

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