Nefertiti finds her outer mummy.
Posted on 06/08/2003 10:05:51 AM PDT by blam
June 08, 2003
Found: Queen Nefertiti’s mummy
Jack Grimston
BRITISH archeologists believe they may have identified the body of one of the most legendary beauties of the ancient world.
They are confident a tattered mummy found in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings is probably Queen Nefertiti, stepmother of the boy king Tutankhamun and one of the most powerful women in ancient Egypt.
The conclusion has been made after 12 years of research, using clues such as fragments of a wig and the piercing of the mummy’s ears. The breakthrough came after the Egyptian authorities allowed the 3,500-year-old body to be examined in detail for the first time.
Under a pile of ancient linen, archeologists found a broken-off arm bent in a way that was permitted only if the dead person was a pharaoh or queen.
Joann Fletcher, a key member of the research team from York University, said: “It’s a royal woman of the late 18th dynasty who wielded tremendous power. There are not many who fit that description. We can never have cast-iron certainty that it is Nefertiti but we have narrowed it right down.”
The mummy was originally found with two others by a French team in 1898. It was walled up in a side chamber of the tomb of King Amenhotep II. The body’s poor condition meant it drew little attention.
It was photographed only once, in 1907, before the chamber was walled up again. Since then it has been known simply as “the younger woman”.
Fletcher’s interest in the mummy was sparked when she noticed the photograph’s resemblance to a Nefertiti bust on display in Berlin since the 1920s whose beautiful face makes it one of the best-known images of ancient Egypt. It shows a woman with a long neck, high cheekbones and a slender nose. The name Nefertiti means “a beautiful woman has come”.
The bust was found at Amarna, where Nefertiti’s husband, the pharaoh Akhenaten, had his capital in the 14th century BC. But after his death he was branded a heretic and anything connected with his reign was destroyed.
“Nefertiti is the big name. She is such a phenomenally important Egyptian figure and she is an icon because of that bust in Berlin,” said Fletcher.
Nefertiti finds her outer mummy.
Most likely, if this is Nefertiti, her mummy was moved in antiquity to be protected from tomb robbers or from those who would wish to defile the remains of anyone connected with the Amarna revolution. In Egyptian religion, to live the next life, your mummy had to be intact. Destruction of the corpse would insure that a person would not resurrect in the netherworld.
If she was Tutankhamun's step-mother, who was his biological mother?
Is it generally accepted that Nefertiti was not of royal blood - - at least not of Egyptian royalty. Her parentage is usually attributed to Ay, a general under Akhenaten who is believed by many scholars to be the murderer of Tutankhamun or she is believed by some scholars to be a foreign princess.
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[T]he presence of the cap-crown with the sun-disk-topped dual uraei, as well as the double lines below the abdomen, seem to require the identification of this figure as Nefertiti rather than any of her daughters; additionally, since the king's face on the relief is quite similar to an inscribed depiction of Akhenaten on British Museum stele No. 24431 -- and if the factors favoring a Nefertiti identification for the queen are correctly interpreted -- an object long thought to be a depiction of the royal couple Smenkhkare and Meritaten should now be revised as representations -- albeit not typical ones -- of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti.Now we can all sleep nights. ;')
newer, similar topic:
Nefertiti mummy 'found in Egypt'
BBC News ^ | 10 June 2003 | BBC staff
Posted on 06/10/2003 10:42:05 AM PDT by Constitution Day
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926411/posts
related threads:
Akhenaten: An Early Egyptian Monotheist
M E R I D I A N M A G A Z I N E ^ | By Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin
Posted on 04/05/2004 8:52:20 PM PDT by restornu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1112072/posts
Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
BBC History ^ | September 5, 2002 | Dr Marc Gabolde
Posted on 07/30/2004 9:42:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181802/posts
also related (King Tut):
King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine
(Coming to the USA in 2005 for 27 month/4 city tour)
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 12/3/04 | Jill Serjeant - Reuters
Posted on 12/03/2004 7:41:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294074/posts
King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine
Reuters ^ | Fri, Dec 03, 2004 | Jill Serjeant
Posted on 12/03/2004 11:09:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1294172/posts
King Tut, Part 2
NY Times ^ | Dec 7, 2004
Posted on 12/06/2004 7:26:13 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295849/posts
New Likeness of King Tut on Display
Austin American Statesman ^ | Austin American Statesman
Posted on 09/30/2002 10:03:56 PM PDT by Asmodeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/760458/posts
Curses! Mummy Tale Not True
Yahoo! News ^ | 12/20/02 | Amanda Gardner - HealthScoutNews
Posted on 12/20/2002 6:39:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/810186/posts
First Lion Mummy Found in Tomb of King Tut's Wet Nurse
Tampa Bay on line ^ | Jan 14, 2004 | Alex Dominguez, Associated Press
Posted on 01/14/2004 11:07:36 AM PST by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057911/posts
related to Egypt (but not the Amarna period):
Brewers Concoct Ancient Egyptian Ale
("..tastes very different from today's beer.")
BBC On-Line | Saturday, 3 August, 2002 | staff writer
Posted on 08/03/2002 8:09:31 AM PDT by yankeedame
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/727104/posts
Egypt - New Tombs Discovered
AP Wire | June 6, 2002 | Sarah El Deeb
Posted on 06/06/2002 8:10:29 AM PDT by NYer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/695660/posts
Pharaoh at bat? History throws a curve
(Prof claims baseball invented in ancient Egypt)
Albany Times-Union ^ | 3.15.03 | BRUCE WEBER
Posted on 03/16/2003 4:29:13 AM PST by mhking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/865926/posts
hehehe
weird...
Personally, I find prophecy interesting from a sociological perspective, for the most part. For example...
The Prophecy of Jean Dixon
of a World Leader born on Feb. 5, 1962
by Tom Chase
http://wovoca.com/prophecy-jean-dixon.htm
...A prediction I find interesting is by the American psychic Jean Dixon, that is described in the book "A Gift of Prophecy" by Ruth Montgomery, publshed in 1965. Jean Dixon was a popular psychic in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. But in this vision Jean Dixon saw a child that was born on February 5, 1962 in the Middle East. She saw that this child was descended from Queen Nefertiti and her pharoah husband Amenhotep IV of Egypt, who was an "enlightened" pharoah who began a monotheistic sun-worship religion in Egypt which was very different from the polytheistic religion then practiced in Egypt. Jean Dixon's vision saw that this child would bring a universal world religion and world peace around year 2000. We might assume that this would be the Antichrist described in the Bible's Book of Revelation. Jean Dixon saw a cross growing above this man, until it covered the entire earth.
So when do Lauren Green and Condie Rice come out with an album of piano duets?
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