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Statue of King Tut's grandfather unearthed in Egypt
UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/3/10 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 10/03/2010 8:11:05 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed part a 3,400-year-old statue of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of the young King Tutankhamun, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Saturday. 'The statue was found near the northern entrance of Amenhotep III's temple and depicts the king sitting down on a throne with Amun,' the chief deity, Hawass said. The 4ft by 3ft statue of Amenhotep III in Kom el-Hittan was discovered at the site of the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, Egypt's Ministry of Culture said. The temple is one of the largest on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; amarna; amenhotep; amenhotepiii; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; thebandynasty; tut; tutankhamun
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To: blam

As for Tiy having red hair...c’mon! We’ve all seen plenty of depictions of her. She was twice as African as 0bama.

Isn’t it said that many mummies have red hair because the stuff that makes it brown or black will fade with time, faster than the stuff that makes it red? (So that most mummy hair gets redder with time.)

Either that or there’s something in the human psyche that urges folks to mummify redheads, because there sure are a lot of them in the mummy population.


21 posted on 10/03/2010 6:58:39 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( A window seat, a jug of elderberry wine, and thou.)
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To: Liz

Amenhotep III was a fat old guy. That photo isn’t A3! It’s Louie the Lip!


22 posted on 10/03/2010 7:00:09 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( A window seat, a jug of elderberry wine, and thou.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Go read last month's National Geographic. I don't have an ax to grind and I don't make up stuff. They said she had red hair and if that's not unusual, why mention it?

King Tut Is R1b

23 posted on 10/03/2010 7:18:30 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Didn't mean to ruffle your feathers. But they say that about an awful lot of mummies.

NG writers are a mixed bag, btw. If mummies had any guns, the journalists would regularly say they were semi-automatics.



Behold Tiye. If that's a redhead, I'm a pinchhitter for the Shirelles.

24 posted on 10/03/2010 7:35:44 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( A window seat, a jug of elderberry wine, and thou.)
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