Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
With slideshow.
- Online: Ancient Egyptian Chariot Trappings Rediscovered
Nature (Jo Marchant) Excellent five page article, with photos. Many thanks to David Krueger for the link. The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....
- King Tut's Chariot Travels To New York
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press Release. When the exhibition visited London I took a friend to see it and he had a number of observations which I posted about in a review at the time, but one of his main criticisms was that the large furnishings, shown...
- Clues From Leftover Bandages Of Tutankhamun
MSNBC (Rossella Lorenzi) With photos King Tutankhamun's mummy was wrapped in custom-made bandages similar to modern first-aid gauzes, an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed. Running from 4.70 meters to 39 centimeters...
- New Book: Tutankhamun's Footwear
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With slideshow. When Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's treasure-packed tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, he found a large collection of footwear of different sizes and shapes. "It is the only evidence...
- Documentary Preview: Tutankhamun: Secrets Of The Boy King
National Geographic (Steven Stanek) An unusual level of interest in Tutankhamun was bound to occur now that the Tutankhamun exhibition is coming to London, and a TV documentary is being shown in UK television on 30th October 2007, which is previewed on...
Egypt
Tutankhamun chariots are engineering marvels
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
With slideshow.
King Tutankhamun, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,300 years ago, rode full speed over the desert dunes on a Formula One-like chariot, according to new investigations into the technical features of the boy king's vehicle collection.
Discovered in pieces by British archaeologist Howard Carter when he entered King Tut's treasure-packed tomb in 1922, the collection consisted of two large ceremonial chariots, a smaller highly decorated one, and three others that were lighter and made for daily use.
"They were the Ferrari of antiquity. They boasted an elegant design and an extremely sophisticated and astonishingly modern technology," Alberto Rovetta, professor in robotics engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan, told Discovery News.
Of the six chariots, one made its longest ride yet last week when it traveled outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit in New York's Discovery Times Square Exposition.
- Online: Ancient Egyptian Chariot Trappings Rediscovered
Nature (Jo Marchant) Excellent five page article, with photos. Many thanks to David Krueger for the link. The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....
- King Tut's Chariot Travels To New York
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press Release. When the exhibition visited London I took a friend to see it and he had a number of observations which I posted about in a review at the time, but one of his main criticisms was that the large furnishings, shown...
- Clues From Leftover Bandages Of Tutankhamun
MSNBC (Rossella Lorenzi) With photos King Tutankhamun's mummy was wrapped in custom-made bandages similar to modern first-aid gauzes, an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed. Running from 4.70 meters to 39 centimeters...
- New Book: Tutankhamun's Footwear
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With slideshow. When Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's treasure-packed tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, he found a large collection of footwear of different sizes and shapes. "It is the only evidence...
- Documentary Preview: Tutankhamun: Secrets Of The Boy King
National Geographic (Steven Stanek) An unusual level of interest in Tutankhamun was bound to occur now that the Tutankhamun exhibition is coming to London, and a TV documentary is being shown in UK television on 30th October 2007, which is previewed on...