Egypt
Luxor News Blog
- The Religious Texts In Tt 353
Luxor News Blog Jane Akshar has published her notes from the most recent lecture at the Mummification Museum in Luxor on her blog at the above address. The lecture was by Dr Francisco J Martin Valentin, and was entitled The Religious Texts in TT353 –...
- Luxor News Blog
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/Jane Akshar has been so busy whilst I've been away that it is difficult to know where to start! Here are some recent important headings that are to be found on the above address - do go and have a look! Visitor...
- Dig Diary: Tomb Of Senenmut
http://www.institutoestudiosantiguoegipto.com/senenmut/es/diario_2006.shtml http://www.institutoestudiosantiguoegipto.com/senenmut/es/campanas.shtml The 'Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto' (I.E.A.E.) has updated its Senenmut website with...
- More Re Hatshepsut Exhibition
http://tinyurl.com/onr37 (The New Yorker)Another review which combines some details about the exhibition with some information about Hatshepsut and anicent Egypt: "With a broad face, large-featured but for a dainty chin, Hatshepsut is no Nefertiti. Even...
- Unknown Man "e"
This is the mummy I hear called Pentaware but better known as "Unknown man E". Many of the last one hundred and twenty five years most famous Egyptologist's have believed that this could be the body of this Twentieth Dynasty prince who was found...
Egypt
TT71 - the tomb of Senenmut
Luxor News Blog
Jane has shared photographs of her visit to TT71, the tomb of Senenmut. This tomb is one of the least visited, being somewhat difficult to reach, so it is particularly nice to see these images. Thank you Jane!
Senenmut was closely associated with the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. There has been all sorts of speculation about his exact relationship with her, but officially he was the chief steward during her reign and was apparently the tutor of her only daughter Neferure. He was also the overseer of her building works at Luxor. TT71 is one of two tombs that were designed for Senenmut, the other being the larger and more ambitious TT353, which was unfinished. TT71 is a t-shaped rock-cut tomb with a passage leading to a hall with a row of 8 columns. The tomb was well decorated and produced numerous ostraca. It is not known where Senenmut was eventually buried.
The Senenmut Project has its own website, in English and Spanish.
Senenmut was closely associated with the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. There has been all sorts of speculation about his exact relationship with her, but officially he was the chief steward during her reign and was apparently the tutor of her only daughter Neferure. He was also the overseer of her building works at Luxor. TT71 is one of two tombs that were designed for Senenmut, the other being the larger and more ambitious TT353, which was unfinished. TT71 is a t-shaped rock-cut tomb with a passage leading to a hall with a row of 8 columns. The tomb was well decorated and produced numerous ostraca. It is not known where Senenmut was eventually buried.
The Senenmut Project has its own website, in English and Spanish.
- The Religious Texts In Tt 353
Luxor News Blog Jane Akshar has published her notes from the most recent lecture at the Mummification Museum in Luxor on her blog at the above address. The lecture was by Dr Francisco J Martin Valentin, and was entitled The Religious Texts in TT353 –...
- Luxor News Blog
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/Jane Akshar has been so busy whilst I've been away that it is difficult to know where to start! Here are some recent important headings that are to be found on the above address - do go and have a look! Visitor...
- Dig Diary: Tomb Of Senenmut
http://www.institutoestudiosantiguoegipto.com/senenmut/es/diario_2006.shtml http://www.institutoestudiosantiguoegipto.com/senenmut/es/campanas.shtml The 'Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto' (I.E.A.E.) has updated its Senenmut website with...
- More Re Hatshepsut Exhibition
http://tinyurl.com/onr37 (The New Yorker)Another review which combines some details about the exhibition with some information about Hatshepsut and anicent Egypt: "With a broad face, large-featured but for a dainty chin, Hatshepsut is no Nefertiti. Even...
- Unknown Man "e"
This is the mummy I hear called Pentaware but better known as "Unknown man E". Many of the last one hundred and twenty five years most famous Egyptologist's have believed that this could be the body of this Twentieth Dynasty prince who was found...