There is a bust of him in the Cairo museum- showing a very long face, ears, etc...
Posted on 06/02/2006 4:46:30 PM PDT by wagglebee
There's no evidence at all that Amenhotep IV suffered from Marfan' Syndrome, just speculation based on artistic depictions.
Not bad for 3000yrs old.
There is a bust of him in the Cairo museum- showing a very long face, ears, etc...
Ankhesenpaaten is also the daughter of Nefertiti.
If this is really Ankhesenpaaten ,I can't wait to see the complete facial reconstruction of this mummy.
The artistic depictions *is* evidence, but nice try.
Yeah, definitely. There is at least one object in the boy king's tomb which has his old -aten name, and there's the major monument of his reign, the colonnade at Karnak, which was later recarved with Ramses II's cartouche.
Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
BBC History | September 5, 2002 | Dr Marc Gabolde
Posted on 07/30/2004 12:42:36 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181802/posts
8 posted on 10/24/2004 12:50:46 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181802/posts?page=8#8
Of course . . . She's "well preserved".
I never understood the way inbreeding worked with the Ptolemies. From what I gather the women got smarter as time went on, and they had several names, while every one of the men was named Ptolemy (we use nicknames to tell them apart), and they grew fat and stupid. Ptolemy X, for example, could barely walk.
"The artistic depictions *is* evidence, but nice try."
No it's not. It is [piss-poor] evidence that Amenhotep IV had a long face and big ears nothing more. Mafan's is simply speculation as to the cause of this trait. It also makes the massive assumption that these are accurate, realistic depictions of Amenhotep IV. I also doesn't help that there are many different styles used to depict him.
Perhaps you believe that Marie-Thérèse Walter was blue and had her tits on the side instead of the front based on 'evidence' from Pablo Picasso!
Maybe women are the stronger sex after all.
The Queens were all Cleopatra, Berenice or Arsinoe.
What's also interesting is that in over several hundred years of rule, the last Cleopatra was the only one of this family who ever bothered to learn Eygptian and read hieroglyphs.
Oh....okay!
Who decides who has access to them?
There are probably many who would have ethical questions about this, but tourism is the most profitable industry in Egypt so its not going to just go away. The end of archaeological digs would hurt the Egyptian economy a good deal.
As far as deciding who may excavate the tombs, enter them, or do any archaeological work in Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities usually has the final say. Currently the Director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities is Zahi Hawass, so he usually has the most weight when deciding who may do archaeological work in Egypt.
According to Publishers Weekly, Michelle Moran just sold a novel about NEFERTITI to a major publishing house for a six figure deal. According to people I've spoken to in the industry, the book is being shopped around and several studios have been interested. I haven't seen the book and I don't think it comes out until July 2007 (at least that's what Moran's website says: www.michellemoran.com). But if the book is turned into a movie, at least the script should be decent. I wonder who they'll get to take the lead role? Last year there was talking of Halle Berry playing her. I wonder if that still would be the case, depending on which studio adapts the book.
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