My question on the masks found in KV54 has been answered by a reply to the same question on the EEF. Apparently when Winlock published his 1941 report of the...
Thank you Marianne and Goldie for your replies. There is something about three mummies that keeps me wondering. The are: the one supposedly belonging to...
... There may have been some more study done on those "spots" but I don't recall any now. However, I do know that the lesions on the skin of Thutmose II are...
Do you mean the recently discovered one or the ones the Egyptian claimed belonged to Osiris? I know that the ancient Tomb of Osiris was actually the tomb of a...
Hi, I am a little puzzled as to how the water gets in tombs in a desert country. Do the tombs go down as deep as the water table? I seem to recall seeing...
I believe the water is due to the way the Nile is now, with the Aswan High Dam and all. I do recall a program like that, though I too am unsure as to just ...
Despite the image of dry, sandy desert, there is water in a desert. The water is in the ground, sometimes inches below the surface; more often 30 - 100 feet...
I hadn't thought about the Nile being dammed up. That makes sense. Seems a shame doesn't it...all those thosands of years of annual flooding and now man messes...
It does. The Egyptians had it controlled down to a science, too. Why they did not just go with what they had will forever be beyond me. That is the last...
Now cautious that we are going rather off topic I will however say a piece on this subject. However please only reply if you have something to ADD to the...
... Well just eighteen months late... I have now uploaded this image into the files section under Thread Discussion Images. It is originally from Marc Gobolde,...
... desert country. Do the tombs go down as deep as the water table? I seem to recall seeing something a while ago on TV with Zahi Hawass, I think it was...
Jon, To add some further complications to the "who-is-who-and-where-are- they?" saga... After reading the article I'm wondering if the two small mummies in ...
The news about the possible KV64 has not been reported in the press or news items much as yet but one brief article can be read at the below address. Thanks to...
From BBC news Quote: A collection of mummies have finally gone on public display at a museum in Cairo. Until now, a lack of space in the museum meant they were...
Though it may not be related to the new mummies displayed anew, I was wondering if anyone had any information about the mummy of a woman described as...
Nefertari looks really elegant..she looks like she would be at home strolling down a runway. As I know absolutely nothing about specific mummies I am no help...
Hello Allison, Mostly everything I have comes from the Internet. A search through Google can take you to a lot of interesting pages, and on those pages there...
The lady in question is MeryetAmun. I believe she's thought to be one of the wives of Thutmose III. She wasn't found until the 1920's in her original tomb...
The exact family relationship Meryetamun had to the royals of the 18th Dynasty is not certain. She is thought by some to have been a daughter of Amunhotep II...
... this ... H.E. ... discovery ... Thutmose III had two daughters by the name of Meryetamun but both must have outlived him as they are not not shown in his...
one week ago i posted some thoughts on this so called "KV64"- object at GLYPHDOCTORS, making some critical remarks, but no real reply followed ! i pointed to...
Kent Weeks of the Theban Mapping Project has updated the project website with an August 2006 progress report. This outlines that further rooms have been found...
Okay, Al-Ahram has posted a more detailed article on the second mummy room in Cairo: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/808/hr2.htm However, I don't think this...
Good photos of ancient Egypt A few years ago when people began to add pictures, hard disk space to store them on the internent was very expensive... so endless...
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