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- More On The Tutankhamun/ Akhenaten Dna Debate
Dylan Bickerstaffe's Exploring Ancient Lands Thanks to Kate Phizackerly for linking to Dylan Bickerstaff's article. As regular visitors to this blog will know, Kate challenged the identification of the KV55 mummy as Akhenaten. In Kate's words...
- Royals In The Lab
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) It's all go at Al Ahram this week. A SECOND facility for testing the DNA and the lineage of ancient Egyptian royal mummies is ready to go into operation, Nevine El-Aref reports. The laboratory is similar to the one...
- Egypt’s First Laboratory For Ancient Dna Analysis
OBBeC Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, is collborating with the Discovery Channel and Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities to establish the first laboratory in Egypt dedicated to testing ancient DNA samples. The laboratory, which...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egypt Revealed
CCTV 2 page article (short pages), mainly about trying to identify the mummy of Hatshepsut. There's also a video (which crashed both my browsers, but you may be luckier). Pages 4, 5 and 6 show photographs of the mummy. Scientists and archaeologists...
- Hatshepsut On The Radio And Tv
NPRZahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, is interviewed by telephone in this radio recording (preceded by an advert). It is not always easy to hear what Hawass is saying, due to a rather fuzzy line. The...
Egypt
DNA unveils the secrets of ancient Egyptian history
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Applera Corp-Applied Biosystems Groups announced its collaboration with the Discovery Communications Inc. and Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities in establishing the first laboratory in Egypt dedicated to testing ancient DNA samples. The laboratory, which is located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, began testing samples of ancient royal mummies dating back to the 18th Dynasty in April as part of a project to identify the mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's most famous queen. Discovery Channel enlisted the services of Applied Biosystems as part of a project aimed at discovering and identifying the lost mummy of Hatshepsut, one of the most important women in ancient Egyptian history. The primary purpose of the new DNA laboratory is to assist in the identification of this and other mummies that have been removed from their original tombs, and to clarify familial relationships within and between Egypt's ancient dynasties. This is the first time DNA testing has been used in identifying an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
- More On The Tutankhamun/ Akhenaten Dna Debate
Dylan Bickerstaffe's Exploring Ancient Lands Thanks to Kate Phizackerly for linking to Dylan Bickerstaff's article. As regular visitors to this blog will know, Kate challenged the identification of the KV55 mummy as Akhenaten. In Kate's words...
- Royals In The Lab
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) It's all go at Al Ahram this week. A SECOND facility for testing the DNA and the lineage of ancient Egyptian royal mummies is ready to go into operation, Nevine El-Aref reports. The laboratory is similar to the one...
- Egypt’s First Laboratory For Ancient Dna Analysis
OBBeC Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, is collborating with the Discovery Channel and Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities to establish the first laboratory in Egypt dedicated to testing ancient DNA samples. The laboratory, which...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egypt Revealed
CCTV 2 page article (short pages), mainly about trying to identify the mummy of Hatshepsut. There's also a video (which crashed both my browsers, but you may be luckier). Pages 4, 5 and 6 show photographs of the mummy. Scientists and archaeologists...
- Hatshepsut On The Radio And Tv
NPRZahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, is interviewed by telephone in this radio recording (preceded by an advert). It is not always easy to hear what Hawass is saying, due to a rather fuzzy line. The...