Hello everyone, I was recently in Chicago and unfortunately did not have the time to visit the Field Museum. My main purpose was visiting another mummy in...
It's been a few years since I made the trip to Chicago and that was almost a total disaster. (Car breakdowns, lost hotel reservations etc.) I did make it to...
Warwick University, UK, are running an Ancient Egyptian Day School with Joyce Tyldesley as the guest speaker. This is to be held on Saturday 10th December...
It has been republished since, but the original description of Elliot Smith's unwrapping and examinations of the royal mummies following their discovey in...
Dear Doug, I was in Chicago in August 2000, and I got to see both the Field Museum and the Oriental Institute, so your message brought back memories. I...
Just gone no mail as i fly to Luxor on Monday Dec12. I take a nile Cruise aboard the Domina Prestige M/S Emilio and will give you a report on this boat when I...
Just a quick email to say that Royal Mummies is now at three hundred members for the first time. It's been a steady build up over the past couple of years so...
Arrgghh!! Political Correctness! I certainly don't want to offend anyone by saying Happy Christmas but it is Christmas! I am an atheist so not religious at all...
Thanks for that link Doug. I don't have access to that channel so when it comes along I hope someone will write a review for here. An interesting linked page...
In a message dated 12/31/2005 10:48:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, douglowe2001@... writes: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mummy/about.html Doug, thanks...
In a message dated 12/31/05 5:08:41 PM GMT Standard Time, ... Maybe he talking about Niwinski. This Polish scholar had previously attempted to find the tomb...
I'm wondering if this is the same area that John Romer mentioned in the TV program, "Ancient Lives"? Howard Carter went through the entire valley and left his...
Taken as a whole, this program was one of the better shows about a subject related to AE. It really did attempt to tell the story of the odyssey of the mummy,...
I don't believe the show was broadcast here in Australia....pity.... I wish there was a way I could download it to view it. It sounds soooooooo interesting. ...
I found the program quite interesting. I had seen the mummies in the Niagara Falls Museum way back in 1952. I was ten years old at the time and it was those...
hi chirstene. the show mairanne is talking about was shown here, I saw it on the discovery or history channel on foxtel. the repeat everything a zillion times,...
If I remember correctly, one reason for the mummy being identified as Ramesses I or a New Kingdom pharaoh was due to the toes being spread indicating they had...
In a message dated 1/7/06 5:03:41 PM GMT Standard Time, ... Hi, Jon. The fragment seems to say that the mummy of Ram. I was taken to the "kAy of Inhapi",...
This mummy was found by H. Winlock in DB358, a tomb directly under the north portico of the temple of Hatshepsut. Because the foundations of the temple were...
Hello Jon, The fragmentary state of the Rs1 coffin indicates that the burial had been destroyed. A perfect mummy would have hardly existed after the usual...
... Hi, Marianne! The mummy of Rs1 was indeed taken to the "kAy of Inhapi" which refers to a part of DAN where the tomb of Amenhotep I is located, NOT to...
As far as I am aware the fragment of the Ramesses I coffin was the only fragmentary part of a coffin found in the tomb and to me it implies that the body of...
In a message dated 1/9/06 4:59:05 PM GMT Standard Time, ... The body can have been transferred to DB320 without the entire original coffin. What's more, the...
Hello again Jon, Your observations are most reasonable and I would like to bring them up to date. The "qAy" of Inhapi is a topographical feature of the D17 DAN...
... The coffins are all listed here http://egyptianmuseum.com/coffins1.html. I have only just had a brief look but which one is associated with the "Ramesses...
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