Egypt
- Photo For Today: Tutankhamun Family Album
Based on the JAMA paper here's a photographic hall of fame based on Tutankhamun's new ly proposed family tree, just for a bit of fun. I'm sorry that they're not better - these are just the ones I have kicking around on my laptop. One...
- 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...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
- After Nefertiti
With the recent release of the data from the DNA and CT scanning of the eighteenth dynasty mummies in particular the mummies believed related to king Tutankhamen some new questions have been raised. The results show that the Kv55 man found in a coffin...
- Royal Mummies
The news is filled with articles on the relations revealed through the DNA and other testing that has been done over the last couple of years on the eighteenth dynasty mummies. There are reports that Ankhesunamen(Tutankhamen's wife) has potentially...
Egypt
Tutankhamen’s Dynasty in the Valley of Kings
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass)
The press conference held at the Egyptian Museum last week is still being discussed not only among scientists and Egyptologists but also among lovers of ancient Egyptian civilization, especially as the conference highlighted new scientific discoveries that revealed a great deal about the golden pharaoh Tutankhamen and his dynasty.
We all know that several unknown mummies are believed to have belonged to the royal dynasty. Last week, we wrote about King Akhenaten’s mummy which was proven to have not suffered the deformities shown by his statues. The other significant discovery was Queen Tiye’s mummy, a powerful and dominating figure who married King Amenhotep III or the “Pasha of all pharaohs.” She made the king have sculptures of her made equal in size to those of the king, and he even constructed a luxurious palace dedicated to her in a district called Malqata in western Luxor with an artificial lake for her to walk along with its own boat made especially for her.
It is well known that by using her power and influence, Queen Tiye managed to obtain a royal decree to have her father, Yuya, and mother, Thuya, buried in the Valley of Kings, a place designated to kings alone. The tomb was discovered almost untouched and we managed to obtain DNA samples from the mummies of Yuya and Thuya.
- Photo For Today: Tutankhamun Family Album
Based on the JAMA paper here's a photographic hall of fame based on Tutankhamun's new ly proposed family tree, just for a bit of fun. I'm sorry that they're not better - these are just the ones I have kicking around on my laptop. One...
- 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...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
- After Nefertiti
With the recent release of the data from the DNA and CT scanning of the eighteenth dynasty mummies in particular the mummies believed related to king Tutankhamen some new questions have been raised. The results show that the Kv55 man found in a coffin...
- Royal Mummies
The news is filled with articles on the relations revealed through the DNA and other testing that has been done over the last couple of years on the eighteenth dynasty mummies. There are reports that Ankhesunamen(Tutankhamen's wife) has potentially...