Egypt
- Hatshepsut Found; Thutmose I Lost
Archaeology Magazine (Mark Rose) Lovely Mark Rose has provided a very detailed summary of the state of play regarding the Hatshepsut and Tuthmose I identifications on the above page, with photographs, and has been prompted by the Discovery Channel programme,...
- More Re Recent Ct Scans
State Information Service Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has said that CT-scan results have ruled out that one of the newly discovered mummies in Luxor was that of ancient queen Nefertiti. A team of Egyptian archaeologists and researchers suggested...
- Finding Hatshepsut
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/eg3.htm A useful synthesis of the past and present of Hatshepsut. Nevine el-Aref gives a brief description of the reign of the female Pharaoh, takes a look at the tombs, caches and mummies most closely associated with...
- Colorful Words Covering As Truth
The ever ambitious Dr. Zahi Hawass is a colorful man who's enthusiasm for his job as the Secretary general for Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities gives the good doctor full liberties as to Egypt's monuments and how they are to be interpreted...
- Secrets Of Egypt's Lost Queen
Discovery channel's two hour program on finding the mummy of the female king was interesting with amazing access to the royal mummies. However for people like myself who read and watch everything I can on Egypt's mummy collection I could not help...
Egypt
More re Hatshepsut mummy identification
Egypt Today (Cache Seel)
See the above page for the full story, which is accompanied by photographs
See the above page for the full story, which is accompanied by photographs
The search for Hatshepsut unearths more questions than answers, but makes for great TV . . . Before the results of the DNA tests were received, the idea was hit upon to scan the box containing Hatshepsut’s canopic jar. The box was sealed shut, but the three-dimensional scan revealed a molar. Molars have two roots; the one in the box only had one. This made the task of matching it to a mummy that much easier. The scan of the mummies showed that the tooth did in fact come from one of them; the only mummy Hawass ever took from the Valley of the Kings. “I am 100 percent certain that we have discovered the lost mummy of Queen Hatshepsut,” he declares excitedly.
But some Egyptologists, while acknowledging that the results are promising, have voiced fears that he rushed to conclusions. Mitochondrial DNA is the DNA passed from mother to daughter. Samples have been taken from Hatshepsut’s grandmother to be compared against the mummy now believed to be Hatshepsut. The initial results have been called promising, but conclusive proof takes months. When final, these results will prove beyond any doubt whether or not she is Hatshepsut.
- Hatshepsut Found; Thutmose I Lost
Archaeology Magazine (Mark Rose) Lovely Mark Rose has provided a very detailed summary of the state of play regarding the Hatshepsut and Tuthmose I identifications on the above page, with photographs, and has been prompted by the Discovery Channel programme,...
- More Re Recent Ct Scans
State Information Service Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has said that CT-scan results have ruled out that one of the newly discovered mummies in Luxor was that of ancient queen Nefertiti. A team of Egyptian archaeologists and researchers suggested...
- Finding Hatshepsut
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/eg3.htm A useful synthesis of the past and present of Hatshepsut. Nevine el-Aref gives a brief description of the reign of the female Pharaoh, takes a look at the tombs, caches and mummies most closely associated with...
- Colorful Words Covering As Truth
The ever ambitious Dr. Zahi Hawass is a colorful man who's enthusiasm for his job as the Secretary general for Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities gives the good doctor full liberties as to Egypt's monuments and how they are to be interpreted...
- Secrets Of Egypt's Lost Queen
Discovery channel's two hour program on finding the mummy of the female king was interesting with amazing access to the royal mummies. However for people like myself who read and watch everything I can on Egypt's mummy collection I could not help...