Posted on 05/12/2020 5:57:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
National Geographic today released never-before-seen footage from within ancient Egypt's first known fully intact funeral home. In conjunction with Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a team of archaeologists led by Dr. Ramadan Hussein from Germany's Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, uncovered the burial complex, dating back to 600 BC, deep beneath the sands at the Saqqara necropolis less than an hour's drive south of Cairo. The new, four-part series KINGDOM OF THE MUMMIES produced for National Geographic by BBC Studios follows the team as they explore the subterranean chambers and open four sealed, 2,600 year-old sarcophagi to unlock secrets forgotten since the age of the Pharaohs.
Premiering Tuesday May 12 at 10/9c on National Geographic in the US before rolling out globally in 142 countries and 43 languages, KINGDOM OF THE MUMMIES tracks Dr. Hussein's team, along with Egyptologist Prof. Salima Ikram from American University in Cairo, mummy expert Dr. Stephen Buckley from University of York, digital archaeologist Dr. Matthias Lang from University of Tuebingen, geoengineer Dr. Ayman Hamed of Suez University and paleoradiologist Prof. Sahar Saleem from Cairo University, as they make a host of new finds and decipher clues about Egyptian burial processes...
The first gilded silver mummy mask in Egypt since 1939. Only the third such mask to ever be found in Egypt, the exquisite craftsmanship and advanced metalworking technique that involves plating worked silver with a fine layer of gold, represented one step on the journey of the transformation of the dead into a god. In ancient Egypt silver was double the value of gold and non-invasive testing determined the silver's purity at 99.07%, higher even than Sterling Silver at 92.5% ...
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What an undertaking!
An archaeology show without Dr. Zahi Hawass? Impossible.
lol
:^) Last time I saw him ****ing up stuff was the muography done at the Great Pyramid -- the non-invasive scans that revealed the second set of large voids, right where Jean-Pierre Houdin had predicted.
Reminds me of the book, The Egyptian, by Mika Waltari.
I read it many years ago and remember little of it but I seem to remember the main character hid in the funeral home among the dead for a while.
Was not a fav book of mine but it was recommended to me by my father and grandfather, and was evidently very accurate. I wonder what new things they will discover and how it will compare.
Reminds me of the book, The Egyptian, by Mika Waltari.
I read it many years ago and remember little of it but I seem to remember the main character hid in the funeral home among the dead for a while.
Was not a fav book of mine but it was recommended to me by my father and grandfather, and was evidently very accurate. I wonder what new things they will discover and how it will compare.
I wonder if/how they will work Global Warming into their narrative. They used to do some wonderful articles, but I stopped subscribing to NG because the magazine is a non stop shill for environmental whackos.
Silver plated or gold?
How were they plating without current ?
I went to the gorgeousTutankhamen exhibit in London in March - and they were selling Hawass hats in the gift shop!
Not sure, but have a friend that works in antiquities in Cairo. He has shown drawings using electric eels in tanks as batteries.
Amen. I stopped subscribing for the same reason
Did NatGeo photoshop it?
” how were they plating with out plating?”
Using the local equivalent of Baghdad batteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
“He has shown drawings using electric eels in tanks as batteries.”
Ancient Egyptian director: Well, I suppose you could go with the wood sarcophagus, but dont you think your father would be worth the cost of the stone model with gold trim?
Funeral director
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