Egypt
- The Mummy Of The Pharaoh Of Moses
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) I recently read on the Internet the story of Ramses II's mummy. We know that during the late 1970s the French president, Giscard d'Estaing, asked President Anwar El-Sadat if the mummy of Ramses II could be sent to...
- Osirisnet Updated - Tt56 And Qasr Al Aguz
More good news from Thierry Benderitter and the OsirisNet team, in English and French. As usual a comprehensive description is accompanied by illustrations, translations, diagrams and photographs. First, the tomb of Userhat in Luxor, TT56, is now online...
- Osirisnet - Tt409, Tomb Of Kyky-samut
http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/kyky/kyky_01.htm Thanks to Thierry Benderitter from OsirisNet for the news that the web pages for the tomb of Kyky-Samut (TT409) have been entirely re written and considerably increased. The text is only in French...
- Hair Of Ramesses Ii Goes Home
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070402-0316-egypt-mummy.htmlAfter intervention by the French authorities, an Egyptian mission has returned home with the much disputed fragments of hair, apparently saved after restoration work carried out on...
- More Re Sale Of Ramesses Ii Hair
I was wondering when I posted it yesterday if this story would turn into a controversy: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=iol1164798215148F622"Egypt warned France on Wednesday that anything short of full cooperation in the...
Egypt
Vends meches de cheveux de la momie de Ramses II
http://collection.vivastreet.fr/annonces-livres-occasion/vends-meches-cheveux-la-momie
Thanks to Thierry Benderitter from http://www.osirisnet.net/ for this news item. The son of one of the French scientists who took care of Ramesses II's mummy during its stay in France in 1976 is selling at auction what were apparently samples taken by his father: a lock of hair, but also fragments of embalming resin and of bandages coming from the king's mummy.
Thanks to Thierry Benderitter from http://www.osirisnet.net/ for this news item. The son of one of the French scientists who took care of Ramesses II's mummy during its stay in France in 1976 is selling at auction what were apparently samples taken by his father: a lock of hair, but also fragments of embalming resin and of bandages coming from the king's mummy.
- The Mummy Of The Pharaoh Of Moses
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) I recently read on the Internet the story of Ramses II's mummy. We know that during the late 1970s the French president, Giscard d'Estaing, asked President Anwar El-Sadat if the mummy of Ramses II could be sent to...
- Osirisnet Updated - Tt56 And Qasr Al Aguz
More good news from Thierry Benderitter and the OsirisNet team, in English and French. As usual a comprehensive description is accompanied by illustrations, translations, diagrams and photographs. First, the tomb of Userhat in Luxor, TT56, is now online...
- Osirisnet - Tt409, Tomb Of Kyky-samut
http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/kyky/kyky_01.htm Thanks to Thierry Benderitter from OsirisNet for the news that the web pages for the tomb of Kyky-Samut (TT409) have been entirely re written and considerably increased. The text is only in French...
- Hair Of Ramesses Ii Goes Home
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070402-0316-egypt-mummy.htmlAfter intervention by the French authorities, an Egyptian mission has returned home with the much disputed fragments of hair, apparently saved after restoration work carried out on...
- More Re Sale Of Ramesses Ii Hair
I was wondering when I posted it yesterday if this story would turn into a controversy: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=iol1164798215148F622"Egypt warned France on Wednesday that anything short of full cooperation in the...