Egypt
El Pais (Jacinto Anton)
Talking Pyramids
- La Madre De Tutankhamon Podría Ser Beneretmut, La Hermana Pequeña De Nefertiti
Teleprensa A theory that the mother of Tutankhamun could be the younger sister of Nefertiti, Beneretmut. La I Jornada de Egiptología en Almería, organizada por la Asociación de Amigos de la Alcazaba, concluyó con la tesis de que la madre del faraón...
- Teti And Sesheshet
haaretz.com (Ran Shapira) The Egyptian researchers who, in early January, entered the burial room in the latest pyramid to be discovered in Saqqara, south of Cairo, labored for five hours before they could lift the lid of the sarcophagus within. Inside...
- More Re Sesheshet Mummy
National Geographic Seshseshet's pyramid was discovered last November in Saqqara, the vast burial ground near modern-day Cairo that was part of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Two other previously known pyramids were for his principal wives,...
- Remains Of A Pyramid Discovered In Saqqara
La Vanguardia I was really hoping to have a translation-free day today (I'm sure that something in English will emerge whilst I'm away!). Here is the summary. A team of Egyptian experts have discovered the remains of a pyramid which has been...
- Interview With Jose Miguel Serrano Re Tomb Of Iker
ABC de Sevilla (Lola Rodriguez - in Spanish) Thanks very much to the post from José Luis Toledo to the ASADE news group for the link to this interview with José Miguel Serrano who heads the University of Sevilla team that has found the new intact tomb...
Egypt
More re Sesheshet
El Pais (Jacinto Anton)
This repeats much of what went before, but also makes the point that Sesheshet was not a well known queen in the way that Nefertari or Nefertiti were, although she is mentioned in some ancient Egyptian texts. It is thought that she may have had an important role in the transition between the Fifth and Sixth dynasties in some way by giving legitimacy to her son the Pharaoh Teti, the first pharaoh of the new Dynasty. In Teti's pyramid all that survived of him were the remains of a mummified arm. He was considered to be a poor relative to the great Giza pyramid builders, Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.
La que parece ser la momia de la reina Sesheshet ha sido hallada en Saqqara por arqueólogos egipcios encabezados por Zahi Hawass, director del Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades, informa Reuters. La momia, de 4.300 años, está extremadamente ajada -nada que ver con sus rutilantes congéneres del Imperio Nuevo-, y ha aparecido en la cámara funeraria de la pequeña pirámide de la misma reina cuyo descubrimiento fue anunciado en noviembre por el propio Hawass.
Sesheshet no es una reina célebre ni mucho menos (no es una Nefertiti ni una Nefertari), pero se cree que jugó un papel importante en el paso de la V a la VI dinastía del Imperio Antiguo al otorgar de alguna manera legitimidad a su hijo, el faraón Teti, primer rey de la nueva dinastía. Teti, del que sólo se halló en su pirámide un brazo momificado (su madre, si lo es, ha tenido más suerte), sucedió a Unas, último faraón de la dinastía V, considerada la pariente pobre de la esplendorosa IV dinastía, la de Keops, Kefrén y Micerinos.
Hay pocas evidencias históricas sobre Sesheshet: se la menciona como "Madre de Rey" en la tumba del visir Mehu y, sobre todo, como madre de Teti, de pasada, en un pasaje sobre la calvicie en el papiro médico Ebers, lo que no deja de ser curioso.
Talking Pyramids
Vincent Brown has provided a good summary, with some excellent photographs, on his Talking Pyramids blog at the above address.
- La Madre De Tutankhamon Podría Ser Beneretmut, La Hermana Pequeña De Nefertiti
Teleprensa A theory that the mother of Tutankhamun could be the younger sister of Nefertiti, Beneretmut. La I Jornada de Egiptología en Almería, organizada por la Asociación de Amigos de la Alcazaba, concluyó con la tesis de que la madre del faraón...
- Teti And Sesheshet
haaretz.com (Ran Shapira) The Egyptian researchers who, in early January, entered the burial room in the latest pyramid to be discovered in Saqqara, south of Cairo, labored for five hours before they could lift the lid of the sarcophagus within. Inside...
- More Re Sesheshet Mummy
National Geographic Seshseshet's pyramid was discovered last November in Saqqara, the vast burial ground near modern-day Cairo that was part of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Two other previously known pyramids were for his principal wives,...
- Remains Of A Pyramid Discovered In Saqqara
La Vanguardia I was really hoping to have a translation-free day today (I'm sure that something in English will emerge whilst I'm away!). Here is the summary. A team of Egyptian experts have discovered the remains of a pyramid which has been...
- Interview With Jose Miguel Serrano Re Tomb Of Iker
ABC de Sevilla (Lola Rodriguez - in Spanish) Thanks very much to the post from José Luis Toledo to the ASADE news group for the link to this interview with José Miguel Serrano who heads the University of Sevilla team that has found the new intact tomb...