Posted on 02/09/2024 10:34:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A significant problem with Egyptology's current approach to the tomb of Tutankhamun is the assumption that Howard Carter had all the answers, and that now, with online access to most of his Griffith Institute notes, all the data is to hand and the tomb has effectively had its say. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only were Carter's investigations very much a work in progress, with conclusions subject to constant change as yet another piece of the jigsaw fell into place; it is increasingly clear that much of what the excavator did and thought in relation to the find was never committed to paper. A dependence on Carter's notes alone- incomplete first-assumptions which are now a century old-is unlikely ever to reveal the full story...
As we shift the emphasis to this primary evidence, a very different picture of Howard Carter's discovery is seen to emerge, and it is one in which a single concept dominates: re-use.
We find re-use as well on the sarcophagus itself, where alterations in the iconography, these last including the adclose study by Marianne Eaton-Krauss has revealed multiple addition of kingly wings to the goddesses' enfolding arms-a tiple traces of adaptation-of earlier hieroglyphic signs change plainly intended to upgrade, for kingly use, an erased and over-written. Observable too were significant earlier, sub-pharaonic iconography...
Within this new reality we see Tutankhamun relegated to the status of cuckoo in a much larger nest-buried with essentially queenly burial equipment and occupying the outer chambers only of Nefertiti's ancient place of burial. A larger tomb within whose farther reaches, it appears, Nefertiti lies still, undisturbed and surrounded by a new, kingly burial equipment, far richer, I suspect, than anything archaeology has yet seen, anywhere in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.edu ...
The rest of the KV62 keyword, sorted:
Nicholas Reeves is still beating his drum regarding an additional tomb space behind KV-62.
Yeah, "cuckoo" was my first thought.
(conversion of text from PDF via FreeConvert online, it's a little rough still; the PDF is on the Academia website -- signup may be needed, regardless, the permanent free level is generally sufficient -- and the original apparently appeared in something called Nile Magazine)
I don’t know much about these things, but don’t we have technologies like remote sensing that can answer questions like this?
So Tutankhamun was an early proponent of the Time Share business model?
Lived in a condo made of stone-a.
> I don’t know much about these things, but don’t we have technologies like remote sensing that can answer questions like this?
a “power drill”?
There seem to be a lot of restrictions and rigmarole connected to what you can do physically there.
Interesting. I wonder what the Egyptian government plans on doing. Are they going to attempt to find out what’s behind there?
Only if Hawass can get his mug in front of the camera.
He was one of the main obstructionists.
so what does that do to their build date?
Why does that not surprise me.
He’s not ‘in charge’ anymore; but there’s probably plenty of politics and ego going on even without him.
That’s ok by me. They’ve been talking about this for a few years.
<< Only if Hawass can get his mug in front of the camera. >>
Hawas lost his positions long ago over his politics but even he was showing
these “revelations” long before he was let go. The original name painted over.
The golden mask was repurposed from a female mask and if I recall Tut was the
only ever entombment on the wrong side of a chamber. I forget which was what
But it was along the lines of kings always go to the left….always ! Tuts was to
the right
Probably there were other tombs where the same thing happened but they were looted a couple of thousand years ago so we do not have the mostly complete funerary goods to compare and contrast.
If the guy who first opened the tomb hadn’t been killed by a mummy due to the curse a lot more would probably be known.
:^)
I watched some of that, kudos to whomever made that plot work. :^)
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