Egypt
Joann Fletcher
Hodder & Stoughton
2004
London
ISBN 0 340 83304 1
This book and television show caused quite a scandal five years ago when Egypt's antiquities Majordomo Dr. Zahi Hawass felt that Ms. Joanne Fletcher had deceived him in drawing conclusions which Ms. Fletcher did not inform Dr. Hawass of. This was a breach in protocol and Ms. Fletcher and her prestigious English team were sent packing with Ms. Fletcher not being allowed to return to work in Egypt anymore.
Ms. Fletcher's charms are apparent right from the start of this 380 page book and it is not long before the book heats up and starts becoming fascinating. The authors knowledge on mummies is well justified from her research and intelligent view though she sure spends a whole lot of time talking about herself in the book.
Ms. Fletchers work at the Qasr el Einy medical center makes for some of the most interesting stories as well as her knowledge on the great royal women of ancient Egypt, an issue more often than not ignored. The exception being King Hatshepsut.
Funny enough the book contains pictures and a mention of the fake Amarna princess statue bought for L440 000 and who's forger has now been convicted.
The argument for Nefertiti's greater than usual power is convincing and the Queen may today be more than a pretty face were it not for the erasure of her and her husbands reign.
The thought that there may never have been a separate King named Smenkara and that this name may actually have been one of Nefertiti's throne names is more than plausible and the fact that much of King Tutankhamen's equipment used in his burial was made for a women and King Akenaten makes this assumption more than possible.
The book ends with the authors joint work in the tomb of Amenhotep II where the mummy known as younger women has long had the author believe the mummy to be the subject of her research Nefertiti.
Whether the mummy in question is Nefertiti is still up to dispute but the book itself is a good read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in Egyptology or mummies.
- 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...
- Ct Scan Results Of The Younger Lady (kv35)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/843/he2.htm"Three mummies are located in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV 35). Scholars have differing opinions concerning the identities of these mummies, but one in particular was the star of the media over the past three...
- Review Of Fletcher's New Book On Nefertiti
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/nefertiti/index.html A really rather damning review of Joann Fletcher’s new book on Nefertiti from Archaeology Magainze. I flipped through it a couple of weeks ago, for about 10 minutes which, while not being...
- Fletcher's New Book On Nefertiti
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20040905140704610C311882&set_id=1&click_id=31&sf= This article offers a summary of the main contentions of Joann Fletcher's new book re Nefertiti. The book describes Fletcher's search for the body...
- Nefertiti And The Lost Dynasty
Here we have the show from a couple of years ago based on searching for Nefertiti. As I recall the show was in reaction partially to confront the theory put forward a few years earlier in 2003 by Dr. Joann Fletcher who had published her book "In search...
Egypt
The Search for Nefertiti
Hodder & Stoughton
2004
London
ISBN 0 340 83304 1
This book and television show caused quite a scandal five years ago when Egypt's antiquities Majordomo Dr. Zahi Hawass felt that Ms. Joanne Fletcher had deceived him in drawing conclusions which Ms. Fletcher did not inform Dr. Hawass of. This was a breach in protocol and Ms. Fletcher and her prestigious English team were sent packing with Ms. Fletcher not being allowed to return to work in Egypt anymore.
Ms. Fletcher's charms are apparent right from the start of this 380 page book and it is not long before the book heats up and starts becoming fascinating. The authors knowledge on mummies is well justified from her research and intelligent view though she sure spends a whole lot of time talking about herself in the book.
Ms. Fletchers work at the Qasr el Einy medical center makes for some of the most interesting stories as well as her knowledge on the great royal women of ancient Egypt, an issue more often than not ignored. The exception being King Hatshepsut.
Funny enough the book contains pictures and a mention of the fake Amarna princess statue bought for L440 000 and who's forger has now been convicted.
The argument for Nefertiti's greater than usual power is convincing and the Queen may today be more than a pretty face were it not for the erasure of her and her husbands reign.
The thought that there may never have been a separate King named Smenkara and that this name may actually have been one of Nefertiti's throne names is more than plausible and the fact that much of King Tutankhamen's equipment used in his burial was made for a women and King Akenaten makes this assumption more than possible.
The book ends with the authors joint work in the tomb of Amenhotep II where the mummy known as younger women has long had the author believe the mummy to be the subject of her research Nefertiti.
Whether the mummy in question is Nefertiti is still up to dispute but the book itself is a good read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in Egyptology or mummies.
- 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...
- Ct Scan Results Of The Younger Lady (kv35)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/843/he2.htm"Three mummies are located in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV 35). Scholars have differing opinions concerning the identities of these mummies, but one in particular was the star of the media over the past three...
- Review Of Fletcher's New Book On Nefertiti
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/nefertiti/index.html A really rather damning review of Joann Fletcher’s new book on Nefertiti from Archaeology Magainze. I flipped through it a couple of weeks ago, for about 10 minutes which, while not being...
- Fletcher's New Book On Nefertiti
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20040905140704610C311882&set_id=1&click_id=31&sf= This article offers a summary of the main contentions of Joann Fletcher's new book re Nefertiti. The book describes Fletcher's search for the body...
- Nefertiti And The Lost Dynasty
Here we have the show from a couple of years ago based on searching for Nefertiti. As I recall the show was in reaction partially to confront the theory put forward a few years earlier in 2003 by Dr. Joann Fletcher who had published her book "In search...