Egypt
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- To Bury A Pharaoh
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) Met curator Dorothea Arnold takes a fresh look at the leftover materials from Tutankhamun's mummification. More than a century ago, a rather unspectacular discovery was made in Egypt's Valley of the Kings....
- Aub President Sheds Light On Female Pharaoh
Lebanon Daily Star The American University of Beirut's (AUB) new president, Peter Dorman, who is also a professor of archeology and an expert on ancient Egypt, gave a presentation Wednesday about Hatshepsut, the only woman to reign as a male pharaoh...
- Review: More Re Hatshepsut Exhibition At Kimbell
http://tinyurl.com/gdr2h (wfaa.com)More of a review of the life of Hatshepsut than a review of the exhibition: "She's not as famous as Cleopatra, but Hatshepsut's rise to power in ancient Egypt has the makings of a movie. Add the fact that her...
- The Woman Who Would Be King
http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2005-11/womanking.html A review of the Hatshepsut exhibtion, with a much better than average concise summary of what is known about Hathsepsut: "Uncovering the story of Hatshepsut's reign is the subject of an...
- Journey To Eternal Life Of Pharaoh
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2077602005"While it first appeared in a tomb in the resting place of Thutmose's aunt and stepmother, Hatshepsut, Thutmose's burial place is the oldest existing copy of the book in a tomb. Now, thousands...
Egypt
What Scents Did The Ancient Egyptians Use?
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The Ancient Egyptians cherished their fragrant scents, too, as perfume flacons from this period indicate. In its permanent exhibition, Bonn University's Egyptian Museum has a particularly well preserved example on display. Screening this 3,500-year-old flacon with a computer tomograph, scientists at the university detected the desiccated residues of a fluid, which they now want to submit to further analysis. They might even succeed in reconstructing this scent.
Pharaoh Hatshepsut was a power-conscious woman who assumed the reins of government in Egypt around the year 1479 B.C. In actual fact, she was only supposed to represent her step-son Thutmose III, who was three years old at the time, until he was old enough to take over.
But the interregnum lasted 20 years. "She systematically kept Thutmose out of power," says Michael Höveler-Müller, the curator of Bonn University's Egyptian Museum.
Hatshepsut's perfume is also presumably a demonstration of her power. "We think it probable that one constituent was incense – the scent of the gods," Michael Höveler-Müller declares.
- To Bury A Pharaoh
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) Met curator Dorothea Arnold takes a fresh look at the leftover materials from Tutankhamun's mummification. More than a century ago, a rather unspectacular discovery was made in Egypt's Valley of the Kings....
- Aub President Sheds Light On Female Pharaoh
Lebanon Daily Star The American University of Beirut's (AUB) new president, Peter Dorman, who is also a professor of archeology and an expert on ancient Egypt, gave a presentation Wednesday about Hatshepsut, the only woman to reign as a male pharaoh...
- Review: More Re Hatshepsut Exhibition At Kimbell
http://tinyurl.com/gdr2h (wfaa.com)More of a review of the life of Hatshepsut than a review of the exhibition: "She's not as famous as Cleopatra, but Hatshepsut's rise to power in ancient Egypt has the makings of a movie. Add the fact that her...
- The Woman Who Would Be King
http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2005-11/womanking.html A review of the Hatshepsut exhibtion, with a much better than average concise summary of what is known about Hathsepsut: "Uncovering the story of Hatshepsut's reign is the subject of an...
- Journey To Eternal Life Of Pharaoh
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2077602005"While it first appeared in a tomb in the resting place of Thutmose's aunt and stepmother, Hatshepsut, Thutmose's burial place is the oldest existing copy of the book in a tomb. Now, thousands...