Scans of King Tut's Tomb Reveal Hidden Rooms, Egypt's Antiquities Ministry Says

NBC News ^ | Mar 17 2016, 8:03 am ET | by Charlene Gubash, Cassandra Vinograd and F. Brinley Bruton

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Well he “gave his life for tourism.”

Props to Steve Martin.

[mass55th]

Watched a British program about the scans done on the tomb. Besides those findings, experts commented about the death mask. They believe that the mask had originally been made for a woman because of the false beard, and also because of the pierced ears. They also showed the seam between the headdress and the actual face that looked like the original face had been removed, and a replacement applied.

[daler]

Yes, didn’t they mock him for suggesting this?

[mass55th]

Hadn't known about the mask until I saw this show. Just did a search, and found this article from last October:

Tutankhamun Death Mask was Made for Nefertiti, Archaeologist says

[mountainlion]

A doctor came up with the Irish thing and it was published in a Genealogy magazine. Later investigation showed that half or Europe were related to TUT. This was quite controversial because everyone wanted to believe that civilization came out of Africa. I tried to find an article about Tut being Irish but it is gone.

[sphinx]

More targets for ISIS.

[Red Badger]

Hmmm. Colors are different.........................

[Red Badger]

Good theory. He died at 19, so they had to improvise.......................

[pepsi_junkie]

"It could be the discovery of the century. It's very important for Egyptian history and the history of the world," he said

It's huge but if they ever unearth Obama's birth certificate it will dwarf this find!

[Boogieman]

Here’s the wikipedia article about the supposed Egyptian princess. Most scholars think it is all just myths that were embellished by medieval monks, but who knows?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scota

[PUGACHEV]

I saw Tut’s golden mask, and it is more impressive in real life than any picture of it I have ever seen.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

Nefertiti's husband Akhenaten attempted unsuccessfully to impose an early form of monotheism...

Her husband, eh? What twaddle. Nefertiti was the consort of the Pharaoh Akhenaten; oh, and he wasn't a monotheist, he was a monolater, that is, he didn't deny the existence of other gods, he merely picked one for exclusive worship.

The Aten was the solar disk, and its worship went back into the Old Kingdom period of Egypt. The 18th Dynasty got very interested in earlier periods of Egyptian greatness, and Akhenaten's grandfather got started on the Aten when he got interested in the monuments of the Giza plateau.

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty told a press conference that metal and organic masses were revealed by the scans, signaling that the rooms could possibly contain funerary objects.

Probably will turn out to be more of Tut's stuff, and nothing besides. Still makes for a good weekly Digest ping, a couple days early.

There's a slim chance that Akhenaten was reinterred in these 'new' chambers, earlier on, having been moved from his original tomb, which was in the Amarna vicinity and now in ruins. In that scenario, Tut's burial was added out front as a sort of cork in the bottle to protect his father's remains.

Nefteriti's eventual burial may have been in the Valley of the Queens; it used to be thought that she'd been dead for some time by the end of Akhenaten's reign, but one more recently discovered inscription refers to her during a later regnal year. A gold scarab with her name was found on the Ulu Burun wreck, suggesting that her grave goods had been plundered in antiquity. In the late 19th c, other authentic ancient materials with her name on them showed up in antiquities markets in Cairo, suggesting that yet another remedial burial of hers, rediscovered in modern times, had been plundered.

Tut's burial was undisturbed (for the most part) then lost when the tailings from a later tomb excavation were dumped all over the entrance, concealing it until the early 20th c. Also, Tut may have been special among the pharaohs buried in KV, as he had reopened the Amun temples and (for a short reign) did some serious temple building; the colonnade at Luxor having been the best known (Ramses II "the Great" had his own cartouche carved over Tut's, but up near where the ceiling used to be, in the darkness, one or more were missed, or deliberately left); it was begun by Amenhotep III, left unfinished during Akhenaten's heresy, then completed by Tut.

[SunkenCiv]

Tut, Europe, DNA — it’s still on FR!

http://www.google.com/search?q=tut+dna+europe+site:freerepublic.com/focus/&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&gbv=1

[SunkenCiv]

Heh, I just clicked on the link, and the link in the message shows up in the search results! ;’D

[SunkenCiv]

I know it's been on the tips of your tongues -- haplogroup R1b1a2 is what you've been trying to remember. Here's the quite wide open and relaxed list of topics:

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• Modern Humans Arrived in Europe Earlier Than Previously Thought, Study Finds [2014]
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• Blood of the Irish: DNA Proves Ancestry of the People of Ireland [2013]
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[Fresh Wind]

I saw Tut’s golden mask, and it is more impressive in real life than any picture of it I have ever seen.

Indeed it is. Saw it at the NY World's Fair in 1964, and again in 2007.

[AndyJackson]

They made beer

They used the pyramids to make beer? No wonder they were such a big deal.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

“Organic masses” might be the poor schlubs that dug the tomb - needed to keep it secret after all.