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- King Tut's Chariot Travels To New York
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press Release. When the exhibition visited London I took a friend to see it and he had a number of observations which I posted about in a review at the time, but one of his main criticisms was that the large furnishings, shown...
- How Tutankhamun Died - The Latest Questions
A new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) letter from Christian Timmann, MD and Christian G. Meyer, MD, challenges the Hawass et al conclusions about how Tutankhmaum died published earlier this year. Although this is the letter that the...
- Conservation: The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
drhawass.com (detailed overview) The New York Times (Randy Kennedy) France24 Newser FECYT (in Spanish) A five year project has been initiated in order to examine, conserve and maintain the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. the first two...
- Getty Conservation Institute To Study The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
guardians.net Many thanks to Fred Sierevogel for the above link. There are some lovely photographs of the tombs of Tutankhamun and Nefertari. Since Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, there have been many questions and concerns about the...
- Nov 4th 1922 - Discovery Of Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/8fpurToday is the anniversary of the discovery of the entrance to the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun: "The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings where the English archaeologist Howard...
Egypt
Brown spots in tomb of Tutankhamun indicative of rushed burial?
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In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the elaborately painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar the face of the goddess Hathor, the silvery-coated baboons—in fact, almost every surface.
Despite almost a century of scientific investigation, the precise identity of these spots remains a mystery, but Harvard microbiologist Ralph Mitchell thinks they have a tale to tell.
Nobody knows why Tutankhamen, the famed "boy king" of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, died in his late teens. Various investigations have attributed his early demise to a head injury, an infected broken leg, malaria, sickle-cell anemia, or perhaps a combination of several misfortunes.
Whatever the cause of King Tut's death, Mitchell thinks those brown spots reveal something: that the young pharaoh was buried in an unusual hurry, before the walls of the tomb were even dry.
- King Tut's Chariot Travels To New York
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press Release. When the exhibition visited London I took a friend to see it and he had a number of observations which I posted about in a review at the time, but one of his main criticisms was that the large furnishings, shown...
- How Tutankhamun Died - The Latest Questions
A new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) letter from Christian Timmann, MD and Christian G. Meyer, MD, challenges the Hawass et al conclusions about how Tutankhmaum died published earlier this year. Although this is the letter that the...
- Conservation: The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
drhawass.com (detailed overview) The New York Times (Randy Kennedy) France24 Newser FECYT (in Spanish) A five year project has been initiated in order to examine, conserve and maintain the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. the first two...
- Getty Conservation Institute To Study The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
guardians.net Many thanks to Fred Sierevogel for the above link. There are some lovely photographs of the tombs of Tutankhamun and Nefertari. Since Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, there have been many questions and concerns about the...
- Nov 4th 1922 - Discovery Of Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/8fpurToday is the anniversary of the discovery of the entrance to the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun: "The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings where the English archaeologist Howard...