As a fairly new member, I was eagerly looking forward to the posts and learning as well as contributing. Recently I haven't been receiving posts and would...
In a message dated 10/14/2005 6:50:53 PM GMT Daylight Time, Hatshpset@... ... Dear Arsine, The list has been quiet for awhile. The problem may be due to...
Thanks so much for the quick response. You're right, the Egyptians have sort of "dropped the ball" about Tut and the fact that technologically they could...
There was a positive result out of the Tut CT Scan. They're going to do the rest of the royals and all the other mummies in Egypt as well. By allowing...
As a new member, i am just a bit hesitant to post. Just wanted to get a feel for the land, so to speak, before i jumped onto the list and made any glaring...
doug, not sure what happened to the book sales but i saw a really interesting show on discovery channel with two detectives who took what information was ...
pam - nope sorry but my name is arsine. i too find what had been done to tut's body by dr d. e. derry who performed the original autopsy in 1925 is ...
It's easy to fault the team that removed Tut from his coffin from this distance, but I have to ask, "What would you have done?" They were operating in an area...
doug - i agree with you about carter and the care he took to inventory the tomb's contents. the fact that he meticulously catalogued each item prior to it's...
Hi All, While there are many interesting topics we could discuss here, but...the topic of this forum is "royal mummies". On topic discussions would be...
All of this talk of the Shroud being a fake could be true. However I do know there are some reputable scientists who still dispute the findings. A body does...
Dear All, In our ideal world of historical scholarship using DNA to solve royal Egyptian kinship links and to assist modern investigators in the study of...
Hello everyone, Any documentary I have seen or any discussion I have had about Carter was pretty sympathetic in this regard. Apparently he was under horrific...
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In a message dated 10/17/2005 3:42:53 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... There are problems, to be sure, but it has been done successfully. For the benefit of our new...
In a message dated 10/17/2005 3:38:35 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... Doug, the second mummy you describe is a typical "poor man's burial." The contrast between...
The male mummy I was speaking of is in quite a nice yellow coffin if he was poor. Hathefer, Ramose's wife was quite well wrapped, but even so was in a poor...
Tut may have been a relatively minor pharaoh, but he may have had access to more gold than any others. Before Akhenaten the temples probably were the biggest...
In a message dated 10/17/2005 9:58:58 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... The one sure thing about the mummy business is that the mummy and the person's whose name is on...
just like mapping the genome all that is needed is a few fragments of dna, as to discover its makeup they will destroy it and put it back together like a...
curious when was the time span of tut!? i couldn't imagine a general list of what each pharoah was sto bring with them in the afterlife. many pharoahs and ...
Hi Adam, One of the duties of a pharaoh was to die and be buried. A pharaoh's burial was a religious rite to ensure the continuation of "Maat". It really...
... access to more gold than any others. Can we be sure that he was buried with more gold than any others? There were lots of tomb robbers, we have to think...
Some years ago I visited the British Museum to see the canopic jar of Queen Mutnodjmet, wife of Horemheb, in their reserve collection. I have been meaning to...
Hello All, I have rearranged the pictures in the Photos section into various categories such as mummies, coffins, canopics etc to make it easier to navigate. ...
I'm so glad you explained that Jon, When I saw the subject, "Group Photos" all I can think of are those pictures where everybody is jambed together and told to...
Below is a link to Osirisnet which has good articles on the following royal tombs in the Valley of Kings and Queens; Thutmose IV Amunhotep III Akhenaten ...
The below articles are on Donald P. Ryan's website and outline smaller tombs including KV21 and KV60 as well as others in the Valley of the Kings. The two...
Someone posted the below message not long after the group was founded and we never did hear anything back about their theory. I doubt it very much that...