Zahi Hawass Reveals a Glimpse of the Latest Discoveries in Egypt

If someone ask me a question now and say: «What is the most recent discovery that you made?» I can say: «I'm inside a tomb located west of the step pyramid, the oldest pyramid in Egypt». This tomb is under the ground, about four meters, cut in the rock. It's inside a big cemetery that we discovered four months ago.

If someone ask me a question now and say: «What is the most recent discovery that you made?» I can say: «I'm inside a tomb located west of the step pyramid, the oldest pyramid in Egypt». This tomb is under the ground, about four meters, cut in the rock. It's inside a big cemetery that we discovered four months ago.

Inside this tomb a beautiful false door, beautifully decorated. A false door is a false door, but it's a door, beautifully decorated with scenes of [WORDS UNCLEAR], Soot, and she was a priestess of the goddess Hathor, the goddess of beauty and love in ancient Egypt.

This is a completely new cemetery, found by accident about five years ago. Some thieves were digging secretly, and we caught them. And began our excavation and found the tomb of the physician, his name is Ka. And inside this tomb we found the first surgical tools to be ever found.

But we dug the cemetery and we found a tomb of the lady, she was overseer of the singer inside the palace, another tomb of the person, who was the overseer of the mission of the pyramid of Onas,the last pyramid of Dynasty V.

We're doing important works now. And the work is everywhere, excavating now in the Valley of the Kings. And we just discovered a beautiful area behind the tomb of king Tut. The area that contained the tears of the gods, the flood. And the ancients Egyptians redirected the flood to be away from the valley. We found also the scenes of the goddesses getting offering the name of the queen that was never known before, her Hemet Nesw Weret. We also found the cartouches of Ramsses II and Seti I.

And we are looking now excavating in front of the tomb of king Tut, hoping that in front of the tomb of king Tut and between KV 63, that may be [WORD UNCLEAR] and also KV 55, may be we discover the tomb of Nefertiti. And you know, we are working now to reveal the mystery of the family of king Tut. And we are using the CAT-scan machine and the DNA labs that we have in Egypt. And soon you will hear many important discoveries for the first time about the family of Tutankhamen.

Other important things that, you know, are excavating in Alexandria for the last three years, looking for the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. And recently, one month ago, we had a radar,and the radar showed three spots of the possible location of the entrance of the tomb. In April, beginning of the April, this week, we are going to look for what the radar will show us and to excavate the reading of the radar.

The great pyramid of Khufu, as you know, we found the secret doors in the pyramid few years ago. This month I'm going to choose the team, that's going to work with me to reveal the secrets of three doors inside the pyramid of Khufu. And these are actually amazing things that we are working in Egypt right now.