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National Geographic Unveils Historic Find With Excavation of Ancient Egypt's First Fully Intact Funeral Home
Business Wire ^ | May 3, 2020 | National Geographic Media Contact

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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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 26thdynasty; ancientautopsies; aymanhamed; bbc; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; gold; matthiaslang; nationalgeographic; newkingdom; ramadanhussein; saharsaleem; salimaikram; saqqara; silver; stephenbuckley; suezuniversity; ufos; uoftuebingen
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Nat Geo, BBC Studios prep four-parter "Kingdom of the Mummies" | by Jillian Morgan | May 5, 2020

Nat Geo, BBC Studios prep four-parter

1 posted on 05/12/2020 5:57:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 05/12/2020 5:57:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What an undertaking!


3 posted on 05/12/2020 6:24:58 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( Beginning my 20th year on FR! 2,500+ replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SunkenCiv

An archaeology show without Dr. Zahi Hawass? Impossible.


4 posted on 05/12/2020 6:30:05 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: j.havenfarm

lol


5 posted on 05/12/2020 6:32:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Moonmad27
:^) 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.

6 posted on 05/12/2020 6:32:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


7 posted on 05/12/2020 6:41:59 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


8 posted on 05/12/2020 6:41:59 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: j.havenfarm

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.


9 posted on 05/12/2020 6:46:25 PM PDT by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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”The first gilded silver mummy mask in Egypt since 1939“ Well I just hadda see THIS! Not as fantastic as I hoped for but still, something to see. A face from the past, illuminated for us in silver. https://www.realmofhistory.com/2018/07/16/mummy-silver-gilded-mask-saqqara-egypt/
10 posted on 05/12/2020 6:55:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Silver plated or gold?
How were they plating without current ?


11 posted on 05/12/2020 7:01:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I went to the gorgeousTutankhamen exhibit in London in March - and they were selling Hawass hats in the gift shop!


12 posted on 05/12/2020 7:03:08 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: tet68

Not sure, but have a friend that works in antiquities in Cairo. He has shown drawings using electric eels in tanks as batteries.


13 posted on 05/12/2020 7:06:16 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Don@VB

Amen. I stopped subscribing for the same reason


14 posted on 05/12/2020 7:14:49 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( Beginning my 20th year on FR! 2,500+ replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Did NatGeo photoshop it?


15 posted on 05/12/2020 7:20:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: tet68

” how were they plating with out plating?”

Using the local equivalent of Baghdad batteries.

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


16 posted on 05/12/2020 7:30:45 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
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To: Texas Fossil

“He has shown drawings using electric eels in tanks as batteries.”


There is an electric catfish, as well as an electric fish called a torpedo. Electric eels are South America.


17 posted on 05/12/2020 7:36:47 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Beowulf9
Silver was highly prized in Egypt even beyond gold.
18 posted on 05/12/2020 8:04:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ancient Egyptian director: “Well, I suppose you could go with the wood sarcophagus, but don’t you think your father would be worth the cost of the stone model with gold trim?”


19 posted on 05/12/2020 9:19:49 PM PDT by I-ambush (One foot in the grave, one foot on the pedal I was born to rebel.)
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Funeral director


20 posted on 05/12/2020 9:20:19 PM PDT by I-ambush (One foot in the grave, one foot on the pedal I was born to rebel.)
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