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A grain of natron? Ok, so maybe Dr. Bob should stick with mummies then. :0) I'll bet you don't like Dr. West's theory of the Sphinx being water damaged either do you? LOL! But to say that Rameses wasn't great is just too much! I have a real soft spot for Rameses based on frivolity I will admit. Whenever I think of him a. I picture Yul Brynner, and b. I think of the wonderfully sentimental dedication Rameses wrote for Nefertari after her death.

Back to the Armana period: Any theories as to who Neferneferatenefersmenkhkare is? Is he/she in fact Nefertiti as some suspect? If she was, isn't it strange that it is recorded that Merytaten, Akhenaten's eldest daughter would have married him/her? If Nerfertiti isn't Neferneferatenefersmenkhkare then who is he and where did he and Tut come from? Was Ankhensenpaaten (later Ankhsenamum), Akhenaten's daughter who married Tut? How old would she have been if Tut was only 8 or 9 when he came to the throne? >

Tut was married to one of Akhenaten's daughters. Akhentaten had a few different wives. The disappearance of Nefertiti has to do with her having predeceased the pharaoh; some say that she was disgraced (different reasons, depending on who sez); lately there's been a very PC and anachronistic rewriting (I think Brier mentions it, but isn't its author; Kent Weeks mentions it, also not its author) by which Smenkhare *was* Nefertiti. There's not a whole lot going for that idea, but some have latched onto it for PC reasons.

Tutankhamen:
The Life and Death
of the Boy-King
by Christine El Mahdy

When it comes to water erosion on the Great Sphinx, I agree with Dr. Schoch. Not too sure that means that there has always been a Great Sphinx there. The head has been recarved, and (according to Schoch and Dobecki) the area around the hindquarters was carved out later. IOW, I could agree that the Sphinx in some form or other predates the 2nd Dynasty, but that it was an image of something else in its earliest form. I don't have Schoch's third book in this vein:

Pyramid Quest:
Secrets of
the Great Pyramid
and the Dawn of Civilization
by Robert Schoch

Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
BBC History | September 5, 2002 | Dr Marc Gabolde
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Dynasty 0 (Egyptian colonies in Canaan)
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/Dynasty0-Raffaele_AH17.pdf | Francesco Raffaele
Posted on 11/27/2004 9:48:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al
Posted on 01/13/2005 8:03:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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