In Zahi Hawass in the Valley of the Kigns: Part1, Dr. Zahi Hawass talked about the possibility of new discoveries in the Valley of the Kings.
In the second part, Dr. Hawass finds new evidence about the lives of the workmen who built the tombs.
"One very interesting object we found is a piece of limestone that shows the plan of a tomb, sketched by a workman over 3000 years ago. Another piece bears an inscription containing the title weret hemet netjer, which means the “great god’s wife.” The title is of an unknown queen, Tiy. We hope to find more evidence of this queen through our work here," Dr. Hawass said.
Dr. Hawass' team also found new clues about the destruction of Hatshepsut’s monuments after the female pharaoh's death:
"On a piece of pottery, we found two cartouches next to each other that make a very interesting combination. One was of Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh and one was of Thutmose III, her successor. It has long been thought that when he came to the throne, Thutmose III gave an order to destroy Hatshepsut’s monuments. This piece shows that that idea may not be right, and now it seems more likely that the destruction happened around the end of Thutmose III’s reign, when his son Amenhotep II succeeded him. The damage was likely caused by people who did not like to see a female as pharaoh," Dr. Hawass concluded.
Here is the video (keep watching until after the video credits).
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