Egypt
I thought the show was very interesting though admittedly 90% might just as well be 10% as the mummies obvious high status did not necessarily mean it was the son of Ramses II.
I thought the overbite was taken a little to much as evidence for the mummies "Royal status". It appears that everyone with an overbite was royal in the new kingdom.
I thought Joanne Fletcher was a wig specialist not a mummy expert and to my knowledge Egypt's Dr. Zahi Hawass will not let her work in Egypt again after her last mummy identification.
Lets hope things don't have to come to that.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/15/wmummy115.xml
- Egypt's Royal Mummies To Get Identity Checks
International Herald Tribune All of Egypt's royal mummies will get identity checks after scientists found one was wrongly identified as a Pharaoh, the chief Egyptian archaeologist said. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council...
- Dig Days - Zahi Hawass On Nefertiti, Part 2
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/845/he2.htmHawass continues his detailed suvey of the data available for the identification of the Younger Lady, one of three mummies in the KV35 cache. As expected, he concludes that the mummy is not as Joann Fletcher...
- 2008 In Brief
Among the finds of this past year was an old kingdom pyramid belonging to queen Sesheshet of dynasty six this find was moderately interesting as were the two empty tombs found near the causeway of king Unas. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/923/he1.htm...
- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...
- Big Hair Was Big In 3600 Bc
A weave found in Egypt, I thought the picture was of roadkill. Lets hope it was a good hair day since it seems to have survived 5600 years. http://ngm.typepad.com/pop_omnivore/2007/10/mummy-with-a-we.html...
Egypt
Son of the Great
I thought the show was very interesting though admittedly 90% might just as well be 10% as the mummies obvious high status did not necessarily mean it was the son of Ramses II.
I thought the overbite was taken a little to much as evidence for the mummies "Royal status". It appears that everyone with an overbite was royal in the new kingdom.
I thought Joanne Fletcher was a wig specialist not a mummy expert and to my knowledge Egypt's Dr. Zahi Hawass will not let her work in Egypt again after her last mummy identification.
Lets hope things don't have to come to that.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/15/wmummy115.xml
- Egypt's Royal Mummies To Get Identity Checks
International Herald Tribune All of Egypt's royal mummies will get identity checks after scientists found one was wrongly identified as a Pharaoh, the chief Egyptian archaeologist said. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council...
- Dig Days - Zahi Hawass On Nefertiti, Part 2
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/845/he2.htmHawass continues his detailed suvey of the data available for the identification of the Younger Lady, one of three mummies in the KV35 cache. As expected, he concludes that the mummy is not as Joann Fletcher...
- 2008 In Brief
Among the finds of this past year was an old kingdom pyramid belonging to queen Sesheshet of dynasty six this find was moderately interesting as were the two empty tombs found near the causeway of king Unas. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/923/he1.htm...
- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...
- Big Hair Was Big In 3600 Bc
A weave found in Egypt, I thought the picture was of roadkill. Lets hope it was a good hair day since it seems to have survived 5600 years. http://ngm.typepad.com/pop_omnivore/2007/10/mummy-with-a-we.html...