Egypt
Discovery channel's two hour program on finding the mummy of the female king was interesting with amazing access to the royal mummies. However for people like myself who read and watch everything I can on Egypt's mummy collection I could not help but notice a huge error.
The mummy being marketed in the show as unknown women "B" from the Deir el Bahari cache was in fact unknown women "D" from the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of kings complete with her raised toe on her left foot.
The fact that Dr. Zahi Hawass was able to accept that the mummy identified as Thutmosis I was not that king is good, most people interested in this subject realised this many decades ago. However it is worrying that unknown women "D" now has ct scan records identified as belonging to unknown women "B".
With such an obvious mistake occurring it leaves me to wonder about the final sensational results of the finding of Hatshepsut, though all appears to be well.
How such a mistake could occur among all these experts from the Supreme council of antiquities, its director as well as the staff of the Cairo museum amazes me that not one of them realized the error.
Dr. Hawass needs to publicly correct this mistake before the ct scan on unknown women "D" gets filed away under the title of unknown women "B" and forgotten.
The mistake unfortunately is almost as big as the discovery.
Small and misleading was a graphic showing unknown woman "A" lying next to unknown woman "B" with the Hatshepsut box described as being between them in the last chamber of DB320. The excavator of DB320 never made any notes in regard to the position that either of these mummies or the box were found in the tomb.
All in all I was entertained partly because of the mistakes.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/lost-queen/program/program.html
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hatshepsut/
- Hatshepsut King Of Upper And Lower Egypt
This is an article on the female king Hatshepsut and her temple at Deir el Bahri which is in a long process of restoration. The author mentions the various reliefs and chapels built by Hatshepsut to honour the gods, herself and her family. The article...
- The Royal Mummies, Immortality In Ancient Egypt
Francis Janot White Star Publishers Italy 2008 ISBN: 978-88-544-0389-5 "What a thrill it is when the portable lamps are lowered down a deep shaft and their light dispels the darkness of a tomb forgotten...
- An Unknown Man
The unwrapping of the royal mummies in June of 1886 brought to light this supposed tortured soul. Unknown man "E" has undergone his date with the C.T. scan machine which confirmed something long doubted that the unknown man had been eviscerated and properly...
- Colorful Words Covering As Truth
The ever ambitious Dr. Zahi Hawass is a colorful man who's enthusiasm for his job as the Secretary general for Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities gives the good doctor full liberties as to Egypt's monuments and how they are to be interpreted...
- Prove It Dr. Hawass!
This article is on Dr. Zahi Hawass's continued examination of all the royal mummies with his new DNA lab. Though I imagine getting DNA from these deteriorated mummies will be difficult. Though the two fetus's were found in King Tutankamen's...
Egypt
Secrets of Egypt's lost Queen
Discovery channel's two hour program on finding the mummy of the female king was interesting with amazing access to the royal mummies. However for people like myself who read and watch everything I can on Egypt's mummy collection I could not help but notice a huge error.
The mummy being marketed in the show as unknown women "B" from the Deir el Bahari cache was in fact unknown women "D" from the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of kings complete with her raised toe on her left foot.
The fact that Dr. Zahi Hawass was able to accept that the mummy identified as Thutmosis I was not that king is good, most people interested in this subject realised this many decades ago. However it is worrying that unknown women "D" now has ct scan records identified as belonging to unknown women "B".
With such an obvious mistake occurring it leaves me to wonder about the final sensational results of the finding of Hatshepsut, though all appears to be well.
How such a mistake could occur among all these experts from the Supreme council of antiquities, its director as well as the staff of the Cairo museum amazes me that not one of them realized the error.
Dr. Hawass needs to publicly correct this mistake before the ct scan on unknown women "D" gets filed away under the title of unknown women "B" and forgotten.
The mistake unfortunately is almost as big as the discovery.
Small and misleading was a graphic showing unknown woman "A" lying next to unknown woman "B" with the Hatshepsut box described as being between them in the last chamber of DB320. The excavator of DB320 never made any notes in regard to the position that either of these mummies or the box were found in the tomb.
All in all I was entertained partly because of the mistakes.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/lost-queen/program/program.html
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hatshepsut/
- Hatshepsut King Of Upper And Lower Egypt
This is an article on the female king Hatshepsut and her temple at Deir el Bahri which is in a long process of restoration. The author mentions the various reliefs and chapels built by Hatshepsut to honour the gods, herself and her family. The article...
- The Royal Mummies, Immortality In Ancient Egypt
Francis Janot White Star Publishers Italy 2008 ISBN: 978-88-544-0389-5 "What a thrill it is when the portable lamps are lowered down a deep shaft and their light dispels the darkness of a tomb forgotten...
- An Unknown Man
The unwrapping of the royal mummies in June of 1886 brought to light this supposed tortured soul. Unknown man "E" has undergone his date with the C.T. scan machine which confirmed something long doubted that the unknown man had been eviscerated and properly...
- Colorful Words Covering As Truth
The ever ambitious Dr. Zahi Hawass is a colorful man who's enthusiasm for his job as the Secretary general for Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities gives the good doctor full liberties as to Egypt's monuments and how they are to be interpreted...
- Prove It Dr. Hawass!
This article is on Dr. Zahi Hawass's continued examination of all the royal mummies with his new DNA lab. Though I imagine getting DNA from these deteriorated mummies will be difficult. Though the two fetus's were found in King Tutankamen's...