Nefertiti mummy 'found in Egypt'

BBC News ^ | 10 June 2003 | BBC staff

[Rich_E]

"Hey, she's a mighty fine looking woman, I wouldn't mind going out with her..." (/clinton)

[Migraine]

Nefertiti: One of the ancient world's most beautiful women

Mr. Potatohead would dig her.

[lafroste]

However, critics say that without DNA evidence to verify the claims, it is unlikely to be the remains of the queen.

Wrong. It either is Nefrititi or it is not, regardless of the DNA evidence. Evidence does not supplant reality for truth. It should have said something along the lines of "without corroberating DNA evidence, we will never know for sure..."

Its my pet peeve of the day, no wonder people have such trouble learning to think.

[bannie]

Don't most women have heads that don't slope? I thought that was a male characteristic?

aaaaaaah, well...may be mistaken...

[bannie]

Bill would "do her."

YUCK!

[Constitution Day]

That sentence jumped out at me too.

People say I'm picky about things like that. I just think they're lazy thinkers.

[bedolido]

what dna would they test against?

[bedolido]

you watch the history channel too... interesting program on Imhotep. Chief archaetech (however you spell it)if I remember right.

[Frank_Discussion]

LOL... No, I watch movies! The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, y'know...

(Now that I've stopped laughing, I WOULD have watched the History Channel thingie, if only I was not such a cheapskate. No cable or satellite system, you see.)

[Frank_Discussion]

"Boy, Neffie, yo shore gotta purdy mouth!"

[cake_crumb]

"However, critics say that without DNA evidence to verify the claims, it is unlikely to be the remains of the queen."

DNA evidence? Stupid.

[RightWhale]

Its my pet peeve of the day

Be careful of catching peevepox.

[xJones]

what dna would they test against?

There are other royal mummies that have been identified by cartouches from around that time. The DNA problem begins when you read the history. The Egyptian pharoahs practiced inter-family breeding on a grand scale. Contructing an historical family tree for any Egyptian dynasty is worth a migraine headache. How they can tell the right mummy from the wrong mummy for DNA testing will be fascinating.

[cryptical]

what dna would they test against?

IIRC Discovery channel had a mention in a show about a study that was gathering DNA from mummies to explore relationships in ancient egyptian royalty.

[cake_crumb]

"However, virtually all traces of the queen and her 'heretic' husband were erased, after his unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the pantheon of Egyptian gods and replace worship of them with the sun god Aton, in one of the earliest known practices of monotheism"

Egypt then went on to worship a minor moon god from another country in the 7th century AD....

Akhenaten and to a lesser extent Nefertiti might have been wackjobs, but the irony of it just hit me...

[cake_crumb]

"The Egyptian pharoahs practiced inter-family breeding on a grand scale"

There was also a theory that young Pharaos-to-be may not have been the products of the married brothers and sisters' unions...it's still gonna be tough.

[bedolido]

o O (note to self... read article at slower pace)

[The Westerner]

Thanks for posting this. It's always a pleasure to look at her sculpted head. One of the benefits of an earlier American public school education is that we were taught the history of Egypt as part of a course on Western Civ.

[Mamzelle]

Truly lovely sculpture. Looks like Audrey Hepburn in profile.

[Nefertiti]

Very Interesting....ty for the ping ;)

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