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Are We Close to Finding the Tomb of Queen Nefertiti in the Valley of the Kings?
YouTube ^ | July 9, 2019 | Ancient Architects

Posted on 10/16/2019 8:20:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv
I heard the Egyptians were forbidden to paint or depict real live people in their hieroglyphics on the walls,

They were limited to use models drawn from the dead.

Well, there was a lot of building going on, and many times the large stones would fall on or roll over the citizens lollygagging around, and when the stones were removed off the dead folk, what they saw was flat people, with one arm in front and one in back, in the act of running for their lives from under the rock as it fell.

Skidadelling, if you will.

These were the models from which they drew inspiration to depict on the walls.

Sometimes there were dogs, and birds, snakes, and such as well.

21 posted on 10/16/2019 11:00:50 PM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: going hot

That is so brilliantly logical that it has to be true.


22 posted on 10/17/2019 3:13:58 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: going hot; CrazyIvan
Not sure about that, but something similar was the origin of the panini.

23 posted on 10/17/2019 6:06:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Probably a Mason putting up a brick wall...dropped a brick onto his lunch sandwich a few stories below.


24 posted on 10/17/2019 6:15:46 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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The ultimate fate of Nefertiti is not known. She followed the guidance of her father, Ay, in her stand against Akhnaton. Pendiebury, in his popular book Tell el-Amarna, tells a story that he would not repeat in his scientific report of the excavations, The City of Akhnaton. This is what he says: "No objects which must have come from her burial were found in the royal tomb. The only clue we have is that in the eighties of the last century [1880s] a body of men was seen marching down the high desert with a golden coffin, and shortly afterwards appeared golden objects bearing her name, whether genuine or faked it is hard to say. That is a well-known story and is told of almost every site in Egypt."
My guess is, Nefertiti wasn't buried in the KV (and I think that's a "duh!" btw); and based on the gold scarab of Nefertiti that was found on the Ulu Burun wreck, her tomb was possibly, probably, robbed in antiquity; the same thing happened to the pharaonic tombs, and the ancient priests moved the pharaonic mummies to a single cache, and so I suspect the same thing happened to the queens' burials (robbed, then moved); the tale above may just be a tall tale, but my guess is, either the queens are still safe in their cache, or the cache was (like the one full of pharaohs) discovered by modern robbers (in the 1880s).

25 posted on 10/17/2019 6:16:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: JennysCool
She was sideways.

Or stuffed in a crack and caulked over......

26 posted on 10/17/2019 6:21:38 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: SunkenCiv

If I recall correctly (and this from 4 decades ago) Velikovsky speculated in one of his books that the body of Nefertiti had been found in a pit not far from Tut’s tomb. He suggested that Nefertiti’s mummy had been dragged from a tomb and tossed into the pit (along with others) by grave robbers. However, I’m not going to go back and reread all of Velikovsky’s books to confirm this hazy memory.


27 posted on 10/17/2019 7:31:43 AM PDT by Hootowl (i)
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To: Hootowl
I'm glad you've read some V. He didn't write that. His view about the contents of the pit tomb was that the wife of Smenkhkare had been interred there. One of the things V wrote about Nefertiti is excerpted up there, and the pit burial is discussed in the same book.

28 posted on 10/17/2019 7:43:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the correction. Like I said, it’s been 40 years since I read the books and, at 70, my memory isn’t what it used to be.


29 posted on 10/17/2019 9:29:45 AM PDT by Hootowl (i)
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To: Hootowl
I grok that.

30 posted on 10/17/2019 12:14:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL! A Valentine Michael Smithism! Terrific!


31 posted on 10/17/2019 4:05:40 PM PDT by Hootowl (i)
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To: SunkenCiv

Do you think the Bronze Age peoples of Egypt built the pyramids? Youtube has been sending me down these rabbit holes lately and my internal historical timeline keeps wanting to drift to the Younger Dryas more and more. ;)


32 posted on 10/17/2019 5:06:40 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring
YouTube is made of many a rabbit hole; among the worst are this crazed-looking guy whose channel is called "Bright Insight".

The Giza pyramids (which is the best known group, includes the Great Pyramid) were built during the 4th dynasty, the (robbed) tomb of the architect of the Great Pyramid is not terribly far from the Great Pyramid (Hemiunu was a cousin of Khufu), and among the ancient graffiti inside the GP is a message from one of the work gangs that built it ("How mighty is the Great White Crown of Khufu").

The Sphinx though, that's another story. The head was sticking up out of the sand, yet it shows the least wear, the opposite result it is reasonable to expect (obviously recarved). There is some wind erosion on the enclosure walls and the Sphinx itself, but both were primarily eroded by water, as was pointed out by geologist Robert Schoch and before that the late John Anthony West, who got the observation from Schwaller de Lubicz (I saw his widow give a talk one time, long ago).

33 posted on 10/18/2019 10:16:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Hootowl
:^) What good would I be around here if I couldn't drop a Valentine Michael Smithism once in a while?

34 posted on 10/18/2019 1:45:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Never thirst!


35 posted on 10/19/2019 6:18:23 AM PDT by Hootowl (i)
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Spontaneous search for the royal cache DB320 / TT320 in Thebes
Trip to the royal cache DB320 / TT320 | August 31, 2012 | Dik van Bommel
Trip to the royal cache DB320 / TT320 | August 31, 2012 | Dik van Bommel

36 posted on 09/28/2022 8:44:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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