Egypt
Egypt Daily Star News
With photo.
See the above page for the full story.
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Yahoo! NB - the photograph currently showing on the page is not from the site - it is not even from Egypt - but is part of a slideshow of general archaeology and anthropology photographs. A team of archaeologists unearthed two large red granite statues...
- Feature: The Riddle Of Kv63
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video After King Tut’s tomb was discovered, everyone thought there were no more tombs to be found in the Valley of the Kings. But in 2006, we made an amazing discovery, the shaft of an unknown tomb. When I first saw the...
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Egypt Daily Star News A British auction house has withdrawn a Pharaonic artifact from sale after Egyptian authorities saw the item in a catalogue and said it was missing, the ministry of culture said on Wednesday.Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said in...
- More On Valley Of Kings Discovery
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/09/egypt.new.tomb.ap/ The first photos that I've seen anywhere are shown on the above page, together with a description of what is know so far, quoting Kent Weeks. Below are extracts from other pages, offering...
- Valley Of The Kings Discovery
http://tinyurl.com/ar5ef (Monsters and Critics) "An American archaeological mission discovered a tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings next to the burial place of King Tut, Egyptian antiquities authorities announced Wednesday. An excavation team from...
Egypt
Pharaonic brain drain bed
Egypt Daily Star News
With photo.
Egyptian antiquities authorities on Thursday revealed an ancient Pharaonic embalming bed unearthed from a mysterious tomb near Luxor used to prepare bodies for mummification more than 3,000 years ago.
The wooden bed was painstakingly restored after being discovered in pieces in the KV-63 tomb in southern Egypt’s famous Valley of the Kings, next to Tutankhamun’s tomb, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement.
The bed, featuring carved heads of a lion and a lioness at its foot, slopes downwards five centimeters from head to toe to help drain bodies being prepared for mummification.
Bodies had their organs removed as soon as possible after death, including the brain which was thrown away as it was thought to serve no purpose in the afterlife.
The heart was left in the body, with other organs cleaned, perfumed and preserved in jars to be buried with the mummy.
Afterwards, the corpse spent 40 days on the bed for draining of fluids, and another 15 days being bandaged.
Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said in a statement that the 170-cm-long bed had been reconstructed from pieces of wood found scattered around tomb KV-63.
See the above page for the full story.
- More Discoveries From The Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
Yahoo! NB - the photograph currently showing on the page is not from the site - it is not even from Egypt - but is part of a slideshow of general archaeology and anthropology photographs. A team of archaeologists unearthed two large red granite statues...
- Feature: The Riddle Of Kv63
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video After King Tut’s tomb was discovered, everyone thought there were no more tombs to be found in the Valley of the Kings. But in 2006, we made an amazing discovery, the shaft of an unknown tomb. When I first saw the...
- Egypt Secures Auction Pull-out
Egypt Daily Star News A British auction house has withdrawn a Pharaonic artifact from sale after Egyptian authorities saw the item in a catalogue and said it was missing, the ministry of culture said on Wednesday.Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said in...
- More On Valley Of Kings Discovery
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/09/egypt.new.tomb.ap/ The first photos that I've seen anywhere are shown on the above page, together with a description of what is know so far, quoting Kent Weeks. Below are extracts from other pages, offering...
- Valley Of The Kings Discovery
http://tinyurl.com/ar5ef (Monsters and Critics) "An American archaeological mission discovered a tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings next to the burial place of King Tut, Egyptian antiquities authorities announced Wednesday. An excavation team from...