Theban Royal Mummy Project Update
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Theban Royal Mummy Project Update


Here is a new video and images of the royal mummies room in the Cairo museum and the funerary equipment of Yuya and Thuya.

http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/mummypages1/intro.htm




- Photo For Today From The Tomb Of Yuya And Thuyu
Four small vessels from the tomb of Yuya and Thuyu in the Valley of the Kings (KV46), Cairo Museum (taken in 1996) The vessel interiors are hollowed out to a depth of only c.4 cms. Full details of the tomb can be found on the Theban Mapping Project website....

- Amenhotep's Toe
A dramatic event has taken place among the royal mummies when workers entered the royal mummy room of Cairo's museum and found that the big toe on Amenhotep II's  right foot had fallen off. No it is not a bad case of leprosy and sure maybe...

- Who Is Thuyu?
Thuyu has long been known to Egyptologists through the reference made to her and her husband on a scarab known as "the marriage scarab" created as propaganda for Amenhotep III to announce his marriage to the lady Tiye the daughter of Yuya and Thuyu. The...

- The Forgotten Boy
In the recent two year study of Eighteenth Dynasty royal mummies it seems that this boy from a side chamber in valley of kings tomb KV 35 was not included. There are artifacts from the tomb Kv 35 which belong to a son of Amenhotep II named Webensenu as...

- Tutankhamen Unwrapped
This is an excellent set of Video's by Discovery on the tests that have been going on examining the royal mummies. Remarkable are the images of the two mummies from tomb Kv21 as well as the results which show much of the Amarna royal family has been...



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