Egypt
The Philadelphia Inquirer
This seems a bit strage, but Hawass is claiming to have found items in the tomb of Tutankhamun that were not captured on the official Cairo Museum inventory:
See the above page for the full story.
- Update On Current State Of Antiquities
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Yesterday Hawass issued another update re the current state of antiquities in Egypt. Exerpt: Dr. Hawass said it seems the looters dropped objects as they fled, and every inch of the museum must be searched before the Registration,...
- Very Sad Official News That Items Have Gone Missing From Egyptian Museum And Dashur
drhawass.com With photos. Zahi Hawass, Minister of Antiquities, has confirmed that against his expectations and predictions an inventory of the museum following the break-in has resulted in the finding that items have been looted from the museum, including...
- More Re Display Of The Mummy Of Tutankhamun
National Geographic The mummy will be removed from its sarcophagus and placed in a climate-controlled glass case in the antechamber of the pharaoh's tomb in Luxor in November (see Egypt map). "I am taking [the mummy] out to show it to the...
- More Re Speculation On Kv63's Owner
http://tinyurl.com/rm5zh (AOL News)Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for the following item, which looks at Hawass's view that KV63 was originally a tomb and was later used as a storage area for embalming materials. Schaden and Hawass have differing...
- More On Valley Of Kings Discovery
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/09/egypt.new.tomb.ap/ The first photos that I've seen anywhere are shown on the above page, together with a description of what is know so far, quoting Kent Weeks. Below are extracts from other pages, offering...
Egypt
Tutankhamun still revealing secrets
The Philadelphia Inquirer
This seems a bit strage, but Hawass is claiming to have found items in the tomb of Tutankhamun that were not captured on the official Cairo Museum inventory:
Egypt's top antiquities official was down in the fabled tomb of Tutankhamun a few weeks ago - doing a television interview, of all things - when he noticed something curious he had never seen before.
In a back room closed to public view, Zahi Hawass spotted a cluster of reed boxes crammed with plaster fragments and limestone seals used to stamp hieroglyphs. Intrigued, the scholar took a closer look and saw that both were marked with a trio of icons - sun, scarab and basket - whose meaning he recognized instantly: Neb-kheperu-re, the throne name of the boy pharaoh.
Eighty-five years after his tomb was discovered, and after his treasures have been ogled by millions of museumgoers, King Tut is still revealing surprises. In addition
to the seals, apparently left behind by the original excavators in the early 1920s, Egyptian workers recently found 20 sealed jars with the pharaoh's name in an old storage facility nearby. Neither group of items is part of the official Tut inventory at the Egyptian antiquities museum in Cairo, Hawass said in a phone interview.
See the above page for the full story.
- Update On Current State Of Antiquities
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Yesterday Hawass issued another update re the current state of antiquities in Egypt. Exerpt: Dr. Hawass said it seems the looters dropped objects as they fled, and every inch of the museum must be searched before the Registration,...
- Very Sad Official News That Items Have Gone Missing From Egyptian Museum And Dashur
drhawass.com With photos. Zahi Hawass, Minister of Antiquities, has confirmed that against his expectations and predictions an inventory of the museum following the break-in has resulted in the finding that items have been looted from the museum, including...
- More Re Display Of The Mummy Of Tutankhamun
National Geographic The mummy will be removed from its sarcophagus and placed in a climate-controlled glass case in the antechamber of the pharaoh's tomb in Luxor in November (see Egypt map). "I am taking [the mummy] out to show it to the...
- More Re Speculation On Kv63's Owner
http://tinyurl.com/rm5zh (AOL News)Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for the following item, which looks at Hawass's view that KV63 was originally a tomb and was later used as a storage area for embalming materials. Schaden and Hawass have differing...
- More On Valley Of Kings Discovery
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/09/egypt.new.tomb.ap/ The first photos that I've seen anywhere are shown on the above page, together with a description of what is know so far, quoting Kent Weeks. Below are extracts from other pages, offering...