"No-one can be buried in the Valley of the Kings except kings and important people related to the kings. Therefore these mummies have to be kings or queens or important people like nobles or the father or the mother of a king." [said Hawass]

"It could be the gardener," Otto Schaden, the head of the US team, joked to Hawass at the site. "But it's somebody who had the favour of the king."

Valley of the Kings unveils new secrets, The Scotsman, UK, February 11, 2006.

Bob Partridge, of the Ancient Egypt Society, said it could possibly be the tomb of Queen Nefertiti, who co-ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1358 BC. Her tomb has never been found. *** Clarification: Bob is misquoted here, he was asked the question "Could this be Nefertiti?" and his answer was that it could be, but that it could also be a number of other individuals. The last part ended up on the cutting room floor as it were. Also Bob is editor of Ancient Egypt Magazine and there is no such beast as the Ancient Egypt Society.

New Pharaonic Tomb Found in Egypt, Periódico, Cuba, February 11, 2006.

The tomb contains five mummies from the 18th dynasty era (about 1567 BC to 1320 BC) in wooden sarcophagi with lids carved in human shapes and colored funerary masks. The tomb also contains 20 sealed clay storage jars used for offerings and as vessels for beer, the director of Luxor monuments, Mansour Borraiyk, said in a telephone interview from Luxor.

"This cache is important because it will tell us what the Valley of the Kings was really like," Mr. Borraiyk said. "It also proves that the Valley of the Kings is not exhausted. It has a lot to offer to us just waiting to be discovered."

U.S. Archaeologists Find New Tomb Close to King Tut, The New York Times, New York, USA, February 10, 2006.

A Long-Buried Tomb Is Opened in Egypt, The New York Times, New York, USA, February 11, 2006.

Earl Ertman, 73, helped find the burial site that has five sarcophagi with mummies and several pottery vessels. It's the first intact tomb to be found since King Tutankhamen's in 1922.

Details of the find were disclosed Friday by Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Ertman is elated, his wife, Judy, said Friday. "It's the greatest find of his career."

[Patricia] Podzorski said the new tomb probably contains friends and family of royalty. No one could be buried in the valley without royal permission, and a tomb with a king or queen would not have so many bodies.

Summit man part of find, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, USA, February 11, 2006.

And a couple of videos.

Egypt Tomb: Bill Lunn, Bill Lunn, WMCTV, USA, February 10, 2006.

Another Valley of Kings Tomb, Ben Wedeman, CNN, USA, February 10, 2006.