[This post is off topic in not being about a royal mummy but as it relates to methods used in examining mummies has been posted to the group. Jon Wicken, Group...
A couple of articles have been uploaded to the official web page of Zahi Hawass this month which can be found at: http://www.guardians.net/hawass/ The first is...
... Here's what I wrote--and a bit more: The new book is, "The Royal Mummies:Immortality In Ancient Egypt". The authorship is listed as "introduction by Zahi...
Following this discussion on Hatshepsut I have just watched the end of the 2007 documentary "Egypt's Lost Queen" which has just been repeated on Discovery. I...
Jon wrote: "However I couldn't help but be near-arguing with the television at times. When they showed the box from the Royal Mummies cache DB320, inscribed...
jon - great point regarding the wooden box found, the "canopic box"?- this is the same one containing the molar i'm guessing, am i correct???would this have...
... guessing, am i correct???would this have been the box where the actual canopic jars would have been stored?? Yes this box is the one which contained the...
I have come across this youtube video clip on the PBS channel about the lost mummy of Ramesses I. Here Zahi Hawass says he can "smell royal mummies" and can...
From Oct 30th to Nov 3rd, there will be a feast of Egypt-related events in Toronto, thanks to The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities and The Royal...
... guessing, am i correct???would this have been the box where the actual canopic jars would have been stored?? Yes this box is the one which contained the...
... I wonder if it is possible, funds and equipment permitting, to analyse the differences between various resins, bitumen and oils which were poured over...
Does anyone have any information on Usermontu? His age at death, death causes, dna tests...? He's definitely related to the Amarna people, safe facial...
... was ... some ... Hi, Elo I have seen and studied Usermontu in person--and, yes, it is very odd that he has a metal pin in his leg. Anyway, this mummy did...
BTW, it looks like Usermontu was the son of a person called Besenmut. It would be nice to know the results of his DNA test [haplotypes] but nothing was ever...
Hello Marianne, Thank you for your kind reply. I would be very interested in the article on KMT if you can find it. About the dates of mummification, I think...
A series of lectures on Ancient Egypt: Ahmed Shawqi with King Tutankhamen A Lecture by Ahmed Seddik When: 7:00 PM, Saturday, November 22nd Where: The Sawy...
This evening the National Geographic Channel treated North American viewers to a documentary with the title "King Tut and the Lost Dynasty". Once again,...
King Tut's Father ID'd in Stone Inscription Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Dec. 17, 2008 -- An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's...
This latest Zahi Hawass evidence doesn't seem to add anything to what is already known about this block and the wording upon it. We have known for some time...
Of course the mummified infants could prove if both Tutankhamun and his queen were the sons of Nefertiti--via mtDNA. Woodward had already been able to...
... Ankhesenamun's DNA ? Her DNA will be found in the maternal DNA sequenced from the mummified fetuses from Tutankhamun's tomb. Ankhesenamun is presumed to be...
Hi, Jon You asked about Akhesenpaaten Jr. and the theory that she may have been the one to marry Tutankhamun. I believe that was in Allen's article at this...
... Hawass says ""If the fetus DNA matches King Tut's DNA and Ankhesenamun's DNA, then we would know that they shared the same mother" ... My point is that...
... In the tomb of Tutankhamun there was in fact found a chest containing two balls of hair. These have been theorised to be the hair of Tutankhamun and...
... There is further details on this chest at this link: http://www.touregypt.net/MUSEUM/chest3page.htm It is inscribed with the names of both Tutankhamun and...
It has been announced that bones have been found in a sarcophagus inside a sixth dynasty pyramid. Zahi Hawass has announced that they are most likely belonged...
The KV63 website has had some updates in January. There's nothing major to report but it does state that: "This has already proved to be a most enjoyable and...
A further update has now been made to the KV-63 website with a Dig Diary entry from Otto Schaden. http://www.kv-63.com/ Photographs have also been uploaded to...
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