Egypt
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
Star Tribune (Allen Barra) Cleopatra VII has always inspired a considerable amount of interest. It is nice to see that Joyce Tyldesley's book has been so well received by so many reviewers. Here's another positive review. Cleopatra has generated...
- Royal Ontario Museum Lends Queen Touy Work To Monaco
Tandem (Letizia Tesi) She was the daughter of Ramses I and “the great royal wife” during the reign of Sete I. Little else is know about her. Touy, Egyptian queen of the XIX Dynasty is recorded in history as being the mother of the famous Ramses II...
- Kelvingrove Museum Relaunched
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=643872006An article looking at the £30 million (UKP) refurbishment of the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland: " Not only does it contain a major world class collection of Impressionist...
- The Exodus, Finding The Exact Date
The Exodus The famed Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner,...
- After Nefertiti
With the recent release of the data from the DNA and CT scanning of the eighteenth dynasty mummies in particular the mummies believed related to king Tutankhamen some new questions have been raised. The results show that the Kv55 man found in a coffin...
Egypt
Pharaoh's daughter who was the mother of all Scots?
http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=1343642006
"Walter Bower wrote his compendium of Scottish history, Scotichronicon, in the 1440s. This sweeping Latin text aimed to set down the history of the Scottish people from the earliest times – and by so doing to show what race of people we were. He referenced his chronicle from ancient texts and oral history. What he recorded was astounding.
According to Bower, the Scottish people were not an amalgam of Picts, Scots and other European peoples, but were in fact Egyptians, who could trace their ancestry directly back to a pharaoh's daughter and her husband, a Greek king. A replica of an Egyptian mask similar to that found with Tutankhamen. The queen's name was Scota – from where comes the name Scotland. The Greek king was Gaythelos – hence Gaelic, and their son was known as Hiber – which gives us Hibernia. . . . . Few historians have taken the story to be anything more than a verbose bit of Middle Ages origin story-spinning, created by a nation who needed to prove that they were of ancient stock. . . . But now a new book, Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Scots, by Ralph Ellis, claims to prove that this origin myth was no made-up story but the actual recording of an Egyptian exodus that did indeed conclude in Scotland."
According to Bower, the Scottish people were not an amalgam of Picts, Scots and other European peoples, but were in fact Egyptians, who could trace their ancestry directly back to a pharaoh's daughter and her husband, a Greek king. A replica of an Egyptian mask similar to that found with Tutankhamen. The queen's name was Scota – from where comes the name Scotland. The Greek king was Gaythelos – hence Gaelic, and their son was known as Hiber – which gives us Hibernia. . . . . Few historians have taken the story to be anything more than a verbose bit of Middle Ages origin story-spinning, created by a nation who needed to prove that they were of ancient stock. . . . But now a new book, Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Scots, by Ralph Ellis, claims to prove that this origin myth was no made-up story but the actual recording of an Egyptian exodus that did indeed conclude in Scotland."
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- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
Star Tribune (Allen Barra) Cleopatra VII has always inspired a considerable amount of interest. It is nice to see that Joyce Tyldesley's book has been so well received by so many reviewers. Here's another positive review. Cleopatra has generated...
- Royal Ontario Museum Lends Queen Touy Work To Monaco
Tandem (Letizia Tesi) She was the daughter of Ramses I and “the great royal wife” during the reign of Sete I. Little else is know about her. Touy, Egyptian queen of the XIX Dynasty is recorded in history as being the mother of the famous Ramses II...
- Kelvingrove Museum Relaunched
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=643872006An article looking at the £30 million (UKP) refurbishment of the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland: " Not only does it contain a major world class collection of Impressionist...
- The Exodus, Finding The Exact Date
The Exodus The famed Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner,...
- After Nefertiti
With the recent release of the data from the DNA and CT scanning of the eighteenth dynasty mummies in particular the mummies believed related to king Tutankhamen some new questions have been raised. The results show that the Kv55 man found in a coffin...