Egypt
Visitors to the tombs of the kings at Thebes rarely suspect they will be seeing Egypt's pharaonic dead.
However there are a number of mummies remaining in the Biban al Molouk including the young prince in the tomb of Thutmose IV possibly the prince Amenemhet.
When found the prince was standing up apparently to the amusement of the ancient robbers who entered the tomb before the priests came to remove the mummy of the king. These priests left the prince in his side room and sealed the tomb, The tomb was never entered again until found by Howard Carter.
There are of course the two ladies in tomb KV21 but they are not on view and the tomb is inaccessible.
Yes King Tut is accessible but only to 400 viewers a day and KV 35 has a boy and a mummy of great controversy.
But few are expecting a mummy in the tomb of the nineteenth dynasty King Seti II. Nothing is known as to whom he is but be for certain he was of importance in life perhaps a Vizier or a Son of Kush.
- The Forgotten Boy
Egyptians (Tim Reid) Tim has written a piece speculating on the identity of the third occupant of the side chamber in KV35, a young boy who seems to have got lost in the telling of the DNA tale. In this detailed post Tim examines the possibility of identifying...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
The Eye of Re on the Mummy of Pharaoh Seti I By the time Pharaoh Seti I was buried in 1279 BC he had restored Egypt to the former glory lost during the Amarna period of a half century earlier. Seti left as tribute to his reign temples such as at Abydos...
- The Forgotten Boy
In the recent two year study of Eighteenth Dynasty royal mummies it seems that this boy from a side chamber in valley of kings tomb KV 35 was not included. There are artifacts from the tomb Kv 35 which belong to a son of Amenhotep II named Webensenu as...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
- The Great Missing
There is little doubt of three caches of kings from the end of the New Kingdom yet one cache is clearly missing and perhaps today represented only by its absence. The great cache of 1881 found a prince named Ahmosis though sadly he is not the liberator...
Egypt
A Visit with the Mummy from the Tomb of Seti II
Visitors to the tombs of the kings at Thebes rarely suspect they will be seeing Egypt's pharaonic dead.
However there are a number of mummies remaining in the Biban al Molouk including the young prince in the tomb of Thutmose IV possibly the prince Amenemhet.
When found the prince was standing up apparently to the amusement of the ancient robbers who entered the tomb before the priests came to remove the mummy of the king. These priests left the prince in his side room and sealed the tomb, The tomb was never entered again until found by Howard Carter.
There are of course the two ladies in tomb KV21 but they are not on view and the tomb is inaccessible.
Yes King Tut is accessible but only to 400 viewers a day and KV 35 has a boy and a mummy of great controversy.
But few are expecting a mummy in the tomb of the nineteenth dynasty King Seti II. Nothing is known as to whom he is but be for certain he was of importance in life perhaps a Vizier or a Son of Kush.
- The Forgotten Boy
Egyptians (Tim Reid) Tim has written a piece speculating on the identity of the third occupant of the side chamber in KV35, a young boy who seems to have got lost in the telling of the DNA tale. In this detailed post Tim examines the possibility of identifying...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
The Eye of Re on the Mummy of Pharaoh Seti I By the time Pharaoh Seti I was buried in 1279 BC he had restored Egypt to the former glory lost during the Amarna period of a half century earlier. Seti left as tribute to his reign temples such as at Abydos...
- The Forgotten Boy
In the recent two year study of Eighteenth Dynasty royal mummies it seems that this boy from a side chamber in valley of kings tomb KV 35 was not included. There are artifacts from the tomb Kv 35 which belong to a son of Amenhotep II named Webensenu as...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
- The Great Missing
There is little doubt of three caches of kings from the end of the New Kingdom yet one cache is clearly missing and perhaps today represented only by its absence. The great cache of 1881 found a prince named Ahmosis though sadly he is not the liberator...