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Otto Schaden
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Dr. Otto J. Schaden is an American Egyptologist. He is currently the Field Director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis (Tennessee). In addition to his ongoing work on the tomb of Amenmesse (KV10) in the main arm of the Valley of the Kings, he has also cleared and reinvestigated tombs WV23, WV24, and WV25 in the Western Valley.
On 8 February 2006, 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.
- KV63 Official Website Managed by Bill and Roxanne Wilson
- KV10: The Amenmesse Project Managed by Bill and Roxanne Wilson
- MSNBC Science online. "Egyptian ‘tomb’ was mummy workroom: Sarcophagi contained supplies, not royalty, top archaeologist says."
