Dr Bob Brier and Dr Angelique Corthals
Posted on 08/01/2007 10:48:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Manchester scientist is the star of a documentary that unwraps the secrets of Egyptian mummies. Dr Angelique Corthals, a lecturer at Manchester Univeristy, has just returned from the New York premiere of Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs. The film, narrated by The Lord Of The Rings star Christopher Lee, was shown on the giant 88ft-diameter IMAX screen at the Liberty Science Centre. It will be released here in September... Dr Corthals, 34, a lecturer in biomedical and forensic studies in Egyptology, said: "It was a strange experience seeing myself on a screen the size of a three-story building. I'd seen snippets on a tiny screen during the editing process, but that was all"... Directed by Keith Melton and featuring Egyptologists Dr Bob Brier and Dr Zahi Hawass... Dr Corthals, who is on screen for about 10 minutes of the 40-minute documentary, says that she has been fascinated with ancient Egypt since she was a child. She explained: "My parents went to Egypt when I was three and brought me back all kinds of souvenirs including a children's book about Egyptian archaeology... I have never quite recovered - it was that book and the Indiana Jones movies."
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Manchester University Helps With Pharaoh Analysis (Hatshepsut)
Eureka Alert | 7-16-2007 | University Of Manchester
Posted on 07/16/2007 10:19:32 PM EDT by blam
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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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