Side view of the facial reconstruction of Mummy KV55.FAPAB Research Center
Posted on 09/08/2023 9:57:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ever since mummy KV55 was discovered in 1907, it has generated deep interest, debate, and controversy. The big issues have been identifying the KV55 mummy in ancient Egyptian history and combining its most probable identity with that person's proposed age of death....
The mummy was found with grave goods attributed to different people and a desecrated coffin in the undecorated tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings in 1907 by an Egyptologist named Edward R. Ayrton.
This tomb is just a few meters from Tutankhamun's tomb.
Upon excavation, mummy KV55 disintegrated into dust and bones, so today it's only a skeleton.
It was first suggested to be Queen Tyje (due to a broad pelvis), but Australian scientist Grafton E. Smith later declared the remains are male.
Mummy KV55's genetic results show this is the genetic father of Tutankhamun, however palaeomolecular experts criticized some of the results in 2010...
Historical evidence, which is fragmented and conflicting, suggests that Akhenaten died when he was about 40 years old. However mummy KV55 belongs to a man who is believed to have died in his early 20s.
Some scholars argue that mummy KV55's age of death demonstrate that this is actually an enigmatic Late Amarna period person named Smenkhkare.
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
Side view of the facial reconstruction of Mummy KV55.FAPAB Research Center
Looks Asian......................
No doubt he’s registered to vote as a Democrat.
The KV55 Coffin
By Nicholas Brown
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles.
https://arce.org/kv55-coffin/
Kind of looks like Braga from Fast and Furious lol
You’d think they would at least include a list of who is included in the tomb...a bill of lading or site map.
Maybe a toe tag...
These guys built pyramids and Karnak...a little sign, maybe, ya know?
:^) It was a rushed burial, with various items considered to be necessary brought in from other (presumably future) royal burials, with the original names still on them.
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