One of *those* topics.
Posted on 09/22/2022 7:06:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A prominent Egyptologist has boldly claimed to have solved one archaeology’s greatest mysteries: the location of Queen Nefertiti’s mummified remains.
Zahi Hawass, the previous Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs in Egypt, is part of the Egypt-led team that undertook a high-profile excavation in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings that allegedly uncovered amulets once owned by King Tut. The team announced last December that they had also unearthed several unnamed mummies, one of which Hawass believes is the famed ruler.
“We already have DNA from the 18th dynasty mummies, from Akhenaten to Amenhotep II or III, and there are two unnamed mummies labeled KV21a and b,” he told Newsweek. “In October we will be able to announce the discovery of the mummy of Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun’s wife, and her mother, Nefertiti.”
Related Articles Archaeologists crouch over a partially buried 'Very Important' Ancient Roman Site in England Could Soon Fall Into the Sea Palestinian Farmer Unearths 1,500-Year-Old Byzantine Mosaic in the Gaza Strip “There is also in tomb KV35 the mummy of a 10-year-old boy,” he said. “If that child is the brother of Tutankhamun and the son of Akhenaten, the problem posed by Nefertiti will be solved.”
Neferneferuaten Nefertiti ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, some 3,300 years ago during a period of affluence and immense social turmoil. Amenhotep IV converted the country from polytheism to a monotheistic cult dedicated to the sun’s disk, Aton. He changed his name to Akhenaten, meaning “beneficial to Aten,” and moved the capital from Thebes to a hastily built city named Akhetaten, meaning “horizon of the god Aten.” After his death, Egypt’s traditional culture was restored and most monuments to Akhenaten were defaced or destroyed. He was excluded from the lists of rulers maintained by the kingdom and the details of his and Nefertiti’s burials were obscured.
“I am still looking for two things: [Nefertiti’s] grave and her body,” Hawass said. “I really believe that Nefertiti ruled Egypt for three years after Akhenaten’s death under the name of Smenkhkare.”
Hawass’s alleged discovery of Nefertiti is the fourth in seven years. Most recently, archaeologist Nicholas Reeves proposed that the Egyptian Queen was hiding in a concealed chamber in the large tomb of the King Tutankhamun, which was unearthed in 1922. A more controversial theory, first publicized in 2003, claimed she was one of three unnamed mummies found within the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep II. Both theories have been dismissed by Egypt’s Ministry of Culture.
Hawass has faced his share of critism, too. In 2021, Egyptologist Bassam al-Shammaa told Al-Monitor that he doubts whether Hawass “will find the mummy and the original tomb of Nefertiti in Luxor for religious and political reasons, most notably among which is the enmity with the priests of Amun-Ra after her husband Akhenaten called for worshipping the god Aten and she supported him.”
He added: “There are many hurdles to the discovery of Nefertiti’s tomb, given her mysterious life about which only a little was revealed. It is said that ancient Egypt’s most famous figures are the most mysterious ones.”
Maybe he’ll find the lost daddy too.
I wonder if Bill Clinton would date her? 😀🤭
I’d nefertiti around with her, if ya’ know what I mean. Nyya nyya nyya.
She’s probably between King Rootin-tootin and Queen Hotsy-totsy.
“Hiya, Babe! Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!”
We used the royal dentist PAINLESS PAPYRUS!
NeferTITI.
I wonder where I left my mummy! 🤓 I knew it would show up. Now you can send it to me please.
"Say ... I got an uncle in Cairo - he's a Cairo-practer ... nyuk nyuk nyuk ... {SLAP}"
Not bad for someone who's been dead for 3300+/- years.............She still votes Democrat, though.............
Thanks nickcarraway. Probably full of it. He's never had a real discovery of his own, other than the probable mummy of Hatshepsut from among the unidentifieds in the museum.
For years, it seemed like Hawass was on every single show about Egyptian archeology. I wonder if that was by decree.
You mean the queen of Denial?
...walking like an Egyptian, outta here. :)
We didn’t know then how good things life was.
Well said. If corruption had a name....
:)
Saw a YouTube video the other day where claims were made on the DNA tests run on some mummies in the museum currently. I believe it was the mummy called the “younger lady” whose DNA was identified as Nefertiti.
No tomb, but at least the mummy may have been identified. Check it out.
He’s baaaack. As obsessive and tunnel-vision this guy is, I still root for him over Hawass.
Nick Reeves:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hieroglyphics-king-tut-reveals-queen-nefertiti-tomb-2182478
In case anyone is interested, my view is that Nefertiti’s tomb (along with loads of tombs of pharaohs and other queens, and those are known to have taken place) were viciously robbed during pharaonic times, and when the pharaonic cache ( https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/db320-uncovering-impressive-cache-hidden-pharaohs-005190 ) was established and filled by the Egyptian priests, they did a similar, separate cache for the queens.
That’s only a wild, uneducated guess.
In the late years of the 19th century, rumors emerged of a nighttime surreptitious caravan of plundered tomb materials, and antiquities with Nefertiti’s cartouche appeared in the Cairo bazaars. Soooo, my guess is, while the pharaoh cache was rediscovered by tomb robbers, they got caught, and that turned into an archaeological windfall. But tomb robbers also found this theoretical cache of queens, and were never caught, and it has never since been rediscovered.
So, Nefertiti’s mummy is still resting somewhere with other mummies, or rather, was discarded after being stripped of everything of value. IOW, her tomb was robbed twice.
Hawass could also still be right, and the KV35 mummies (originally three unidentifieds were found there if memory serves) may include Nefertiti — though I doubt it. Sounds like a hijacking and warming over of this kooky crap:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4161356/
Afterword:
KV-35:
https://thebanmappingproject.com/tombs/kv-35-amenhetep-ii
BTW, Nefertiti was never a pharaoh in her own right, and probably predeceased Akhenaten, or died very shortly after he did, or, perhaps, died at the same time, because another wild guess is, he was slain in an uprising or coup.
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