Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings?

Praxiteles writes "A radar survey in 2000 found KV63, the tomb excavated near King Tutankhamen's tomb earlier this year. (KV stands for Valley of the Kings). Just announced is that this same radar survey shows an image of what appears to be a shaft to another tomb just 15 meters north of KV63. Will radar stratigraphy change the multi-millennial tradition of destructive excavation and open new opportunities in the search for buried treasure?"

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Trollish write-up

[OriginalArlen]

-1 Troll for the silly (but apparently mandatory, these days) 'buried treasure' feedline, just to give all the lame Tomb Raider jokers something to hang their crap from.

(off-topic) I wish Slashdot had qualitative scoring for posts, instead of a simple 0-5 points scale of bad->good. I read at +5 because I remembered one day that I had other things to do with my life than read every comment. Unfortunately a lot of pretty lame gags, and equally glib dinner-party received opinions get modded up. Most of the humour is just crap; I usually know the dinner-party type arguments and counterarguments on the typical /. controversies. What I like are authoratative comments (the type that begin "Why, yes, I am a rocket scientst" (/PhD in molecular biologist / have an MBA from INSEAD / was head of infrastructure at ISP FooCom, or whatever...), plus pointers to other interesting and relevant stuff (other papers in the field, summaries of current consensu, etc) ... and some personal anecdotes (thought I dowish people would remember that "data" is not the plural of "anecdote". And I wish people would sometimes stop and think "hey, I wonder if these incredibly intelligent over-educated specialists in the field of [FOO] have perhaps thought of my [idea / objection / suggestion / problem with their approach / reason why it won't work] already? After all, it took me 15 seconds to read the writeup and think of it, and they've been working in the field for 30 years...

Re:What??

[JakusMinimus]

Maybe, but "Lara Croft, Radar Stratigrapher" just doesn't have that ring to it.

I don't know ... ever work in a lab environment with females? Yeah, that's right! It is inevitable that a boob (maybe even two at once!) is gonna brush up against you at some time or another. Oh, sweet bliss.

So "Lara Croft, Radar Stratigrapher" the game isn't likey to be very popular as I imagine it is hard to design a game in a labratory setting where the payoffs range from brushing up against feminine charms to discovering heretofor unknown tombs in Egypt. But, I bet "Lara Croft, Radar Stratigrapher" (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) would be a welcome "sight" in the Radar Stratigraphy lab. =)

Hehe...

[Jugalator]

Each time I hear about Valley of the Kings, I start thinking of the end area of Act 2 in Diablo 2. :-p
Sure, it's Valley of the Magi, but still. I think I played that game too much...