Spain, Egypt To Investigate 19th Century Shipwreck (Khafre's Mummy?)

Novosti ^ | 5-22-2008

[blam]

Spain, Egypt to investigate 19th century shipwreck

19:27 | 22/ 05/ 2008

CAIRO, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Spain and Egypt will start a project later this year to investigate the 19th century sinking of a ship that some believe contained the mummy of a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh, news agency MENA said.

MENA cited Egyptian Ambassador to Spain Yasser Murad as saying the countries would first hold consultations and compare historical records, and attempt to establish the location of the shipwreck.

Khafre, who ruled Egypt more than 2,500 years ago, is known for building the second largest of the three great pyramids at Giza, and may have overseen the creation of the nearby Sphinx.

A ship carrying ancient artifacts from Egypt to Britain that sank off the Spanish coast in the first half of the 19th century is believed by some Egyptologists to have contained Khafre's mummy.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

And what about Khafre’s Daddy?

(Sorry.)

[Tax-chick]

Khufu/Cheops, who built the Great Pyramid.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Khafre, who ruled Egypt more than 2,500 years ago,***

You sure about this date? Seems kind of young.

[Tax-chick]

I think they mean 2,500 B.C.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Cold Heart]

Couple hundred years underwater voids most desert mummy warranties.

[colorado tanker]

Khafre sleeps wit da fishes.

[Berosus]

Is this the ship of General Vyse? I heard that one sank with the sarcophagus of Menkaure onboard, but I don’t recall anything about valuables turning up in the pyramid of Khafre.

[SunkenCiv]

oh yeah, sorry, the Beatrice was Menkaure’s stuff, 1832 (?).

[SunkenCiv]

Seems to me some later (New Kingdom) interment was found inside one or more Old Kingdom sarcophagi in either Khafre or Menkaure, or both. Also, isn’t the Khafre material in the British Museum?

[SunkenCiv]

I cadaver figure out which was which.

[colorado tanker]

:-))

[SunkenCiv]

Those people who study mummies aren’t wrapped too tight.