Egypt
Here is an article on the burial of the kings of Egypt's first dynasty the article mentions the sacrifices of those kings courtiers to serve them in the afterlife.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html
The article mentions that Flinders Petrie believed that some of the courtiers had moved during burial. Here is his report you can view the pictures and decide for yourself and if strangled they would not have moved. Poison sounds right!
http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15142.pdf
- National Geographic Feature On Abydos
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/gallery1.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/map.html Thanks to my Dad for buying me the April edition of National...
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...
- Round Up Of Finds
Here we have Al Ahram's coverage of the recent find of the burial of the kings wife Behenu wife of probably one of the Pepi's of dynasty six. The article also talks about the recent find of that wonderful red Granite head of Amenhotep III in the...
- Tombs Of The Courties And Oxyrhynkhos
I have blogged this document before but I think it has been a couple of years. The graves occupants seem to have moved during burial definitely one of my favorites by Sir Flinders Petrie. http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15142.pdf...
- Functionality Of Reserve Heads
These old kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits of the...
Egypt
Tombs of the Kings of the First Dynasty
Here is an article on the burial of the kings of Egypt's first dynasty the article mentions the sacrifices of those kings courtiers to serve them in the afterlife.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html
The article mentions that Flinders Petrie believed that some of the courtiers had moved during burial. Here is his report you can view the pictures and decide for yourself and if strangled they would not have moved. Poison sounds right!
http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15142.pdf
- National Geographic Feature On Abydos
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/gallery1.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/map.html Thanks to my Dad for buying me the April edition of National...
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...
- Round Up Of Finds
Here we have Al Ahram's coverage of the recent find of the burial of the kings wife Behenu wife of probably one of the Pepi's of dynasty six. The article also talks about the recent find of that wonderful red Granite head of Amenhotep III in the...
- Tombs Of The Courties And Oxyrhynkhos
I have blogged this document before but I think it has been a couple of years. The graves occupants seem to have moved during burial definitely one of my favorites by Sir Flinders Petrie. http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15142.pdf...
- Functionality Of Reserve Heads
These old kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits of the...