Spontaneous search for the royal cache DB320 / TT320 in ThebesTrip to the royal cache DB320 / TT320 | August 31, 2012 | Dik van Bommel
Posted on 10/16/2019 8:20:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In May 2018, media outlets around the world ran the headline: “Secret Chamber Does Not Exist”, referring to the possible burial chamber of Queen Nefertiti behind the walls of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of the King's in Egypt.
So you’ll image my surprise when this week I see that the major media outlets across the world are once again reporting that Nefertiti could be hiding behind a wall in King Tutankhamen’s tomb.
The story was ran by a number of well known publications, including The Sun, New York Post, Fox News and more, but why have Egyptologists continued to search the walls of the boy king's tomb when the results were conclusive only last year?
Well, it appears the mainstream media have gotten this all wrong. Archaeologists do believe they are closing in on the tomb of Queen Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, but not via a false wall in the tomb of the 18th Dynasty King. Watch now to learn more.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
They were limited to use models drawn from the dead.
Well, there was a lot of building going on, and many times the large stones would fall on or roll over the citizens lollygagging around, and when the stones were removed off the dead folk, what they saw was flat people, with one arm in front and one in back, in the act of running for their lives from under the rock as it fell.
Skidadelling, if you will.
These were the models from which they drew inspiration to depict on the walls.
Sometimes there were dogs, and birds, snakes, and such as well.
That is so brilliantly logical that it has to be true.
Not sure about that, but something similar was the origin of the panini.
Probably a Mason putting up a brick wall...dropped a brick onto his lunch sandwich a few stories below.
The ultimate fate of Nefertiti is not known. She followed the guidance of her father, Ay, in her stand against Akhnaton. Pendiebury, in his popular book Tell el-Amarna, tells a story that he would not repeat in his scientific report of the excavations, The City of Akhnaton. This is what he says: "No objects which must have come from her burial were found in the royal tomb. The only clue we have is that in the eighties of the last century [1880s] a body of men was seen marching down the high desert with a golden coffin, and shortly afterwards appeared golden objects bearing her name, whether genuine or faked it is hard to say. That is a well-known story and is told of almost every site in Egypt."
- Immanuel Velikovsky, "Oedipus and Akhenaten", p 106
My guess is, Nefertiti wasn't buried in the KV (and I think that's a "duh!" btw); and based on the gold scarab of Nefertiti that was found on the Ulu Burun wreck, her tomb was possibly, probably, robbed in antiquity; the same thing happened to the pharaonic tombs, and the ancient priests moved the pharaonic mummies to a single cache, and so I suspect the same thing happened to the queens' burials (robbed, then moved); the tale above may just be a tall tale, but my guess is, either the queens are still safe in their cache, or the cache was (like the one full of pharaohs) discovered by modern robbers (in the 1880s).
Or stuffed in a crack and caulked over......
If I recall correctly (and this from 4 decades ago) Velikovsky speculated in one of his books that the body of Nefertiti had been found in a pit not far from Tut’s tomb. He suggested that Nefertiti’s mummy had been dragged from a tomb and tossed into the pit (along with others) by grave robbers. However, I’m not going to go back and reread all of Velikovsky’s books to confirm this hazy memory.
I'm glad you've read some V. He didn't write that. His view about the contents of the pit tomb was that the wife of Smenkhkare had been interred there. One of the things V wrote about Nefertiti is excerpted up there, and the pit burial is discussed in the same book.
Thanks for the correction. Like I said, it’s been 40 years since I read the books and, at 70, my memory isn’t what it used to be.
I grok that.
LOL! A Valentine Michael Smithism! Terrific!
Do you think the Bronze Age peoples of Egypt built the pyramids? Youtube has been sending me down these rabbit holes lately and my internal historical timeline keeps wanting to drift to the Younger Dryas more and more. ;)
YouTube is made of many a rabbit hole; among the worst are this crazed-looking guy whose channel is called "Bright Insight".
The Giza pyramids (which is the best known group, includes the Great Pyramid) were built during the 4th dynasty, the (robbed) tomb of the architect of the Great Pyramid is not terribly far from the Great Pyramid (Hemiunu was a cousin of Khufu), and among the ancient graffiti inside the GP is a message from one of the work gangs that built it ("How mighty is the Great White Crown of Khufu").
The Sphinx though, that's another story. The head was sticking up out of the sand, yet it shows the least wear, the opposite result it is reasonable to expect (obviously recarved). There is some wind erosion on the enclosure walls and the Sphinx itself, but both were primarily eroded by water, as was pointed out by geologist Robert Schoch and before that the late John Anthony West, who got the observation from Schwaller de Lubicz (I saw his widow give a talk one time, long ago).
:^) What good would I be around here if I couldn't drop a Valentine Michael Smithism once in a while?
Never thirst!
Spontaneous search for the royal cache DB320 / TT320 in ThebesTrip to the royal cache DB320 / TT320 | August 31, 2012 | Dik van Bommel
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