CAIRO, June 30 .- A mission of archaeologists has discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor City, the last part of an underground passage leading to the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I, father of Ramses II, who reigned between 1314 and 1304 BC.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced today in a statement that the finding was reached after a search that has lasted for 200 years in this area of Luxor, some 600 kilometers south of Cairo. This is the first time that archaeologists discover an entirely get dug into the rock hall of up to 174.5 meters in length and leads to a tomb 98 meters deep, according to the secretary general of the CSA, Zahi Hawas. In the corridor, Archaeologists found pottery dating from the XVIII dynasty (1569-1315 BC), stairs decorated with inscriptions and the model of a ship. During the excavations, archaeologists found, however, another passage of six meters in length and whose entrance leads Entries containing the instructions was the architect who designed the workers during the construction of it. The construction of the first main hall was suspended by the death of Seti I, Ramses II, after which he began to build a tunnel like in your own grave. The corridor leading to the tomb of Seti, and discovered, was found in 1817 by the Italian adventurer Giovanni Belzoni, who managed to go through the first hundred meters of the tunnel. Between 1903 and 1908, the British archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922, restored entrance hall, whose excavation was continued throughout the years until today's date.