Team Unearths Statue of Egypt's Queen Ti

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/23/06 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

LUXOR, Egypt - A Johns Hopkins University archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Monday.

The statue, mostly intact, was found under a statue of Amenhotep III in the sprawling Karnak Temple in Luxor, which was a royal city in ancient Egypt.

Ti was the first queen of Egypt to have her name appear on official acts alongside that of her husband. She was known for her influence in state affairs in the reigns of both her husband (1417-1379 B.C.) and of her son, Akhenaton, (1379-1362 B.C.) during a time of prosperity and power in the 18th dynasty. Her son is remembered for being the first pharaoh to advocate monotheism.

Ti, of Nubian heritage, is believed to be the grandmother of Tutankhamun, perhaps the most famous ruler of ancient Egypt.

Amenhotep III, who ruled for 38 years, made a basic change in the history of ancient Egypt when he named his wife, Ti, as queen against the tradition that his sister should be queen.

[Physicist]

Here she is with King Do:

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You have some interesting discussions.

Thanks for the motivation to look them up. ;)

[blam]

"You have some interesting discussions."

Thanks

"Thanks for the motivation to look them up. ;)

Well, I've done some more reading. Looks like the Hellinikon is the oldest with Caral being the second oldest but, I think we're talking about 100 years difference in age of the two. I expect this is within the +- range of radiocarbon dating.

So, we have Greece, Peru then Egypt in that order with the oldest pyramids...something most would not expect.

[blam]

Hmmm. Look what I found while re-reading this old thread.

"The Cuicuilco Pyramid in Mexico is another enigma. It was geologically dated to before 8,500 BC based upon the fact that it existed before the first volcanic eruption of Mount Xitli."

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Just when you thought you were really old, you find something like this!

[Cronos]

Where did you get that? I doubt the Egyptians were in any way related to Indo-Europeans until the advent of the Sea-peoples (after the collapse of Mycenae in 1200 BC) and then, majorly, under the Greeks and Romans.

The earlier pictographs show a people who are definitely not Nordic (very, very definitely) -- they may have been related to pre-Indo-European Mediterranean and Caucasus peoples and they were definitely related to the Amorite Semites (we do know about Abraham travelling to Egypt around 2000 B.C.) They did have interactions with the Ethiopians and Nubians.

[Cronos]

by "white", you mean Caucasians, right>?

[Lijahsbubbe]

Wow, what an awesome statue. Unbelievable.

[SunkenCiv]

update:

Initial examinations revealed that the back of the statue is engraved with two columns of hieroglyphic text bearing different titles of king Amenhotep III, who ruled for 38 years during the 18th Dynasty. According to Sabri Abdel-Aziz, head of the SCA's Ancient Egypt Department, the inscriptions written on the statue also include a cartouche of a 21st Dynasty queen called Henutaw, which reveals that the same statue was used in a subsequent era.

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[SunkenCiv]

:')

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 1/23/2006. One of *those* topics. Thanks NormsRevenge.

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[marron]

I just had this exact discussion with someone else the other day. The conclusion: He said that Hellinikon was the oldest and Caral was the oldest. I said, based on recent reading about the redating of Caral that Caral was the oldest and Hellinikon was the second oldest.

Dang, you have smarter friends than I do... :)

[TheOldLady]

Thank you for the post, Norm. I couldn't get your link to work, so I found one to National Geographic that has pictures of the "colossus" of Queen Ti.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/Egypt-pictures/

This link works okay for me.

[PapaBear3625]

Where did you get that? I doubt the Egyptians were in any way related to Indo-Europeans until the advent of the Sea-peoples (after the collapse of Mycenae in 1200 BC) and then, majorly, under the Greeks and Romans.

Agriculture appears to have been developed in southwest Asia, probably Mesopotamia. It would not be unlikely for Caucasian agriculturalists to spread out from there, across the Fertile Crescent, down the Levant, and down into Egypt and North Africa, displacing any black hunter/gatherer inhabitants who might have been there earlier.

[TheOldLady]

Ping to the link at Post 57.

There are pictures!

[Monkey Face]

The link worked for me, as well! Thanks!