Egypt
Here we have the newly restored mummy of a child named Amenhotep who's mummy was damaged during the robbery of the Cairo Museum in January of 2011. The looters who entered the museum via a skylight broke the head off Amenhotep and today is being re-exhibited in the new display on the artifact now restored which were damaged during that event.
An amazing restoration job by the museums specialists who restored many of the objects now on display, of which 29 artifacts involved in the rampage includes 18 objects including Amenhotep which never left the museum but were badly damaged and 11 others that were stolen and returned.
Photo: Mahmoud Khaled
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Egypt
The Mummy of Amenhotep
An amazing restoration job by the museums specialists who restored many of the objects now on display, of which 29 artifacts involved in the rampage includes 18 objects including Amenhotep which never left the museum but were badly damaged and 11 others that were stolen and returned.
Photo: Mahmoud Khaled
- Egypt Antiquities Restoration Under Way
National Geographic Video showing some of the damage at the museum, restoration work in progress, and Hawass offering reassurance about the safety of museums and monuments. There is an unedited transcript to accompany the video on the above page. More...
- Mystery Of The Mummy From Kv55
Guardians.net Thanks to Huib Benne for sending me the link to this page. It is Zahi Hawass's take on this particular issue, with some detailed background information about the Amarna period and a description of some of the key contents of KV55. The...
- The Goddess And The Opulent King
The funerary temple of the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep III has yielded another group of Sekhmet statues the goddess of medicine. Amenhotep III ruled at the Epoch of Ancient Egypt's empire and possessed huge resources which he lavished on...
- Damaged Artifacts Repaired
This article from Al Ahram is a good overview of the condition of Egypt's archaeological sites including the Cairo Museum and the artifacts damaged and restored in that institutions laboratory....
- Overlapping Kings
I noticed recently that when I aligned the third Amenhotep's year reign of 25 with his successor and namesakes year 1 that a number of curious dates begin to suggest that much of the fourth Amenhotep's reign may actually have run parallel to his...