Egypt
- King Tut's Father Id'd In Stone Inscription
Discovery Channel (Rossella Lorenzi) An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's greatest mysteries -- who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut. "We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's...
- Who Stole King Tut's Crown Jewels?
Daily Mail (Glenys Roberts) An old story, but presumably resurrected to coincide with the various travels of Tutankhamun: Now aided by modern science, the present Earl of Carnarvon, greatgrandson of the ill-fated explorer who spent £2million of the family...
- 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...
- Opening The Tomb Of Tutankhamun - Photos Auctioned
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4DYYW On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's. The photos were taken by by Harry Burton (1879-1940):...
- More On Toe
This article from Discovery points out that the toe was not stolen in 1907 but given away legitimately by the department of antiquities, Cairo to Professor Ronald Harrison of Liverpool University in 1968....
Egypt
Tutankhamun's missing part rediscovered
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1630926.htm
"His sexual organ has been just another puzzle in the story of the best-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt.Harry Burton (1879-1940) photographed the royal penis intact during Howard Carter's excavation of King Tut's tomb in 1922.But it was reported missing in 1968, when UK scientist Professor Ronald Harrison took a series of x-rays of the mummy. There was peculation that the penis had been stolen and sold. 'Instead, it has always been there. I found it during the CT scan last year, when the mummy was lifted. It lay loose in the sand around the king's body. It was mummified,' says Professor Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. His sexual organ has been just another puzzle in the story of the best-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt.Harry Burton (1879-1940) photographed the royal penis intact during Howard Carter's excavation of King Tut's tomb in 1922.But it was reported missing in 1968, when UK scientist Professor Ronald Harrison took a series of x-rays of the mummy. There was speculation that the penis had been stolen and sold. "Instead, it has always been there. I found it during the CT scan last year, when the mummy was lifted. It lay loose in the sand around the king's body. It was mummified," says Professor Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities."
See the above article for the full story, including a comparison with Otzi, the so-called Ice Man.
- King Tut's Father Id'd In Stone Inscription
Discovery Channel (Rossella Lorenzi) An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's greatest mysteries -- who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut. "We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's...
- Who Stole King Tut's Crown Jewels?
Daily Mail (Glenys Roberts) An old story, but presumably resurrected to coincide with the various travels of Tutankhamun: Now aided by modern science, the present Earl of Carnarvon, greatgrandson of the ill-fated explorer who spent £2million of the family...
- 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...
- Opening The Tomb Of Tutankhamun - Photos Auctioned
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4DYYW On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's. The photos were taken by by Harry Burton (1879-1940):...
- More On Toe
This article from Discovery points out that the toe was not stolen in 1907 but given away legitimately by the department of antiquities, Cairo to Professor Ronald Harrison of Liverpool University in 1968....