Posted on 06/25/2007 8:05:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptologists think they have identified with certainty the mummy of Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, found in a humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings, an archaeologist said on Monday.
Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, will hold a news conference in Cairo on Wednesday. The Discovery Channel said he would announce what it called the most important find in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of King Tutankhamun.
The archaeologist, who asked not to be named, said the candidate for identification as the mummy of Hatshepsut was one of two females found in 1903 in a small tomb believed to be that of Hatshepsut's wet-nurse, Sitre In.
Several Egyptologists have speculated over the years that one of the mummies was that of the queen, who ruled from between 1503 and 1482 BC -- at the height of ancient Egypt's power.
The archaeologist said Hawass would present new evidence for an identification but that not all Egyptologists are convinced he will be able to prove his case.
"It's based on teeth and body parts ... It's an interesting piece of scientific deduction which might point to the truth," the archaeologist said.
Egyptologist Elizabeth Thomas speculated many years ago that one of the mummies was Hatshepsut's because the positioning of the right arm over the woman's chest suggested royalty.
Her mummy may have been hidden in the tomb for safekeeping after her death because her stepson and successor, Tuthmosis III, tried to obliterate her memory.
Donald Ryan, an Egyptologist who rediscovered the tomb in 1989, said on an Internet discussion board this month that there were many possibilities for the identities of the two female mummies found in the tomb, known as KV 60.
"Zahi Hawass recently has taken some major steps to address these questions. Both of the KV 60 mummies are in Cairo now and are being examined in various clever ways that very well might shed light on these questions," he added.
In an undated article on his Web site, Hawass cast doubt on the theory that the KV-60 mummy with the folded right arm was that of Hatshepsut.
"I do not believe this mummy is Hatshepsut. She has a very large, fat body with huge pendulous breasts, and the position of her arm is not convincing evidence of royalty," he wrote.
He was more optimistic about the mummy found in the wet-nurse's coffin and traditionally identified as the nurse's. That mummy is stored away in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
"The body of the mummy now in KV 60 with its huge breasts may be the wet-nurse, the original occupant of the coffin ... The mummy on the third floor at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo could be the mummy of Hatshepsut," Hawass wrote.
RUH-roh! a little over a year ago.. ;-)
Who da MUMMy *-?
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Hatshepsut mummy found ^
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat ^ 03/26/2006 8:43:05 PM PST · 38 replies · 2,380+ views
Egyptian State News Service ^ | Friday, March 24, 2006 | unattributed
The true mummy of ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was discovered in the third floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Secretary General of Supreme Council for Antiquities Zahi Hawwas revealed on Thursday. The mummy was missing among thousands of artifacts lying in the museum, he said during his lecture at the New York-based Metropolitan Museum of Arts. He said for decades archaeologists believed that a mummy found in Luxor was that of the Egyptian queen. It was a streak of luck, he said, to find this mummy. The Metropolitan is hosting a Hatshepsut exhibition that displays 270 artifacts on the...
Nyah, nyah. ;’) In particular...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1603736/posts?page=5#5
Here are some other related topics:
Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al
Posted on 01/13/2005 11:03:55 PM EST by SunkenCiv
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The Queen Who Would Be King [ Hatshepsut ]
Smithsonian Magazine | September 2006 | Elizabeth B. Wilson
Posted on 09/18/2006 1:27:52 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
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Burial complex of Mentuhotep II
The History of the Ancient Egyptians | May 2002 | Ian Bolton
Posted on 07/27/2004 2:56:40 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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analogous stuff regarding Nefertiti:
Mummy dearest: riddle wrapped in a mystery [Nefertiti, Maya, Ankhesenpamon?] [ KV-63 ]
Washington Times / AFP | June 7, 2006 | Alain Navarro
Posted on 06/07/2006 12:31:03 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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Found: Queen Nefertiti’s Mummy
The Sunday Times (UK) | 6-8-2003 | Jack Grinston
Posted on 06/08/2003 1:05:51 PM EDT by blam
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Nefertiti mummy ‘found in Egypt’
BBC News | 10 June 2003 | BBC staff
Posted on 06/10/2003 1:42:05 PM EDT by Constitution Day
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LOL.. Thanks!
We’ll see what Zowie HawAss has for us tomorrow. :-)
:’) Looks like the KV-63 work isn’t going anywhere, and hasn’t for a year or so. Despite the “updated June 25, 2007” message, this is the only page I found which has anything new at all — and it isn’t much.
http://www.kv-63.com/photospage2.html
Oops, there was a little bit on the home page, but it was below the older photos.
http://www.kv-63.com/home.html
their other website:
Still unconfirmed:
Another new tomb in the Valley of the Kings: ‘KV64’
Valley of the Kings Foundation | 31 July 2006 | Nicholas Reeves
Posted on 08/04/2006 9:20:31 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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Wow! Thanks for the ping.
Does Bill Clinton know about this?
Interesting.
I agree.
Should be easy to tell. Didn’t Hashepsut appear in all her paintings and statues with a beard?
Leading many archeologists to argue she was really Italian.
When we have mummy stories, we always bandage them about. [rimshot!]
Pharaoh Hatshepsut Died in PainObese, plagued with decayed teeth and perhaps a skin disease, Queen Hatshepsut might have spent her last days in pain... Bald in front but with long hair in back, the mummy shows an overweight woman just over 5 feet tall, who died at about 50... The daughter of Pharaoh Tuthmosis I and wife of Tuthmosis II, her half-brother, Hatshepsut reigned from 1498 to 1483 B.C. as the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty... When her husband-brother died, Hatshepsut became regent for the boy-king Tuthmosis III, the child of Tuthmosis II and a concubine... Examination of the mummy's mouth and her missing molar, which led to her identification as Hatshepsut, revealed very poor dental hygiene... Obesity and poor oral hygiene suggested to Selim and colleagues that she might have suffered from diabetes... One thing, however, is certain: Hatshepsut had cancer, cancer that had metastasized.
by Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News
July 2, 2007
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