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  • German Archaeologists Discovered the Iconic Bust of Nefertiti in an Ancient Egyptian Sculptor's Studio...

    02/07/2025 7:08:35 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 27 replies
    Smithsonian Magazine ^ | December 6, 2024 | Eli Wizevich
    ...Tell el-Amarna, also known as Akhetaton, captured the imaginations of Borchardt and the European archaeological community around the turn of the century as the capital city built under Akhenaten...In 1911, Borchardt won the support of James Simon, a wealthy art collector who founded the German Oriental Society, to finance an excavation...Previous expeditions had already mapped the ancient city completely. But Borchardt and his team soon focused their attention on a modest, still-unexplored workshop belonging to Thutmose, a sculptor.On the day the archaeologists found the Nefertiti bust, German nobles from Saxony were visiting Tell el-Amarna, and Borchardt dashed between his honorable...
  • This Week in History: the Discovery of Nefertiti's Bust

    12/08/2020 12:00:02 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    When a stunning sculpture of Nefertiti was found by German archaeologists in 1912 it prompted enormous interest in this powerful Queen who'd lived in 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Dr Constance Lord from the University of Sydney took Indira Naidoo from the workshops of the short lived capital of Armana where it was found, to the modern day controversy swirling around whether the bust should stay in its current home in Berlin, or be returned to the country it came from. Duration: 27min 13sec Broadcast: Sun 6 Dec 2020, 10:00pm Audio at link
  • This Is The Face Of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh...Despite being one of the most famous pharaohs, Amenhotep III's mummy is one of the worst preserved.

    12/09/2024 1:17:40 PM PST · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    IFL Science ^ | December 07, 2024 | Benjamin Taub
    Amenhotep III became king while he was still a child. Image credit: Moraes et al., Clinical Anatomy (2024), Courtesy of Cícero Moraes Known by his superb nickname "The Magnificent", Pharaoh Amenhotep III oversaw arguably the most glorious period in Ancient Egyptian history, bringing peace and prosperity to the empire while commissioning the construction of some of its most lavish landmarks. Now, more than 3,350 years after his death, the ancient ruler has finally been restored to his former brilliance thanks to a new reconstruction of his mummified face. Presiding over Egypt for just under 40 years during the 18th Dynasty...
  • Scientists recreate face of 3,500-year-old Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Valley of the Kings

    09/27/2024 12:26:17 PM PDT · by mairdie · 36 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 26 September 2024 | Ellyn Lapointe
    Graphics experts have recreated the face of a pharaoh who founded the Valley of the Kings and rewrote history in ancient Egypt. Amenhotep I - the second ruler of Egypt's 18th Dynasty - is thought to have died 3,500 years ago at around age 35 before being painstakingly preserved through mummification. He was the first to be buried in the Valley of the Kings - the resting site of almost all the Pharaohs of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties.
  • 'Screaming Woman' mummy may have died in agony 3,500 years ago

    08/03/2024 10:02:44 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 48 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | Frontiers
    In 1935, the Metropolitan Museum of New York led an archaeological expedition to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, they excavated the tomb of Senmut, the architect and overseer of royal works—and reputedly, lover—of the famed queen Hatschepsut (1479–1458 BCE). Beneath Senmut's tomb, they found a separate burial chamber for his mother, Hat-Nufer, and other unidentified relatives.Here, they made an uncanny discovery: a wooden coffin holding the mummy of an elderly woman, wearing a black wig and two scarab rings in silver and gold. But what struck the archaeologists was the mummy's expression: with the...
  • Divers find long lost carvings of Tutankhamun's grandfather and other Egyptian pharaohs at bottom of Nile River

    07/26/2024 6:41:59 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | July 24, 2024 | Nikki Main
    The slabs included hieroglyphic inscriptions about the kings' achievements, including King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent and ancestor of King Tut...The ancient artifacts were discovered in the area in 1960, but were lost the following decade during the construction of the Aswan High Dam in Aswan.Archaeologists had rushed to remove them before they were lost underwater, but many couldn't be relocated in time...The researchers used underwater filming and photographing techniques to document the discovery.They are also creating 3D models of the images using photogrammetry - the process of using surface measurements from pictures to create an accurate...
  • In the Time of the Copper Kings

    07/05/2024 10:07:46 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | January/February 2024 | Jason Urbanus, contributing editor
    More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named Mehmet Çakir caused a stir among Anatolian archaeologists when he showed them sketches of objects that he had seen lying 150 feet deep on the seafloor off the coast of Kas, in southwestern Turkey. He described them as "metal biscuits with ears," but experts immediately recognized them as a type of metal bar known as an oxhide ingot that was commonly traded during the Bronze Age, 3,500 years ago.Authorities immediately began to search for the site, and soon came across the artifacts that Çakir had spotted not far offshore of...
  • New Kingdom Pharaoh’s Royal Rest House Found

    05/06/2024 1:25:40 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 3 replies
    Archaeology ^ | Wednesday, May 1, 2024 | editors
    Ahram Online reports that a fortified royal retreat has been uncovered at the Tel Hebwa site, which is located in North Sinai. Mohamed Ismail Khaled of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the mudbrick structure was likely used during the 18th Dynasty reign of Thutmose III (ca. 1479–1425 B.C.). The structure’s entrance, located on its northern side, led to a large hall with three columns, added Hisham Hussein of Sinai Antiquities. This room connected to a smaller hall with entrances flanked by columns. The thresholds of entrances to these rooms were also uncovered, along with the thresholds for small...
  • Half of European men share King Tut's DNA (2011)

    03/07/2024 6:23:59 AM PST · by dennisw · 50 replies
    reuters.com/ ^ | August 1, 2011 | By Alice Baghdjian
    Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said. Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy center, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel. The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share...
  • Aspects of Reuse in the Tomb of Tutankhamun

    02/09/2024 10:34:55 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 25 replies
    Academia dot edu ^ | 2024 | Nicholas Reeves
    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...
  • Did Ancient Egyptians Know Meteorites Came From Space?

    12/31/2023 11:55:29 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    Smithsonian Magazine ^ | October 17, 2023 | Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
    "[The king] Unis seizes the sky and splits its iron."Inscribed in hieroglyphs in a 4,400-year-old pyramid, this sentence evidences that ancient Egyptians understood the extraterrestrial origin of iron-rich meteorites—thousands of years before European scientists reached the same conclusion......the world's oldest-identified iron objects are small beads that come from a burial in Gerzeh, a roughly 5,300-year-old village in northern Egypt. Other pre-Iron Age iron objects have been found in Egypt, including an amulet in the 4,000-year-old tomb of Queen Aashyet in Deir el-Bahari and a dagger blade in King Tutankhamun's tomb...The earliest-known Egyptian references to iron in connection with stars, meteoroids...
  • Rare tumor with teeth discovered in Egyptian burial from 3,000 years ago

    11/12/2023 10:41:19 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    Live Science ^ | November 7, 2023 | Kristina Killgrove
    An ancient Egyptian woman had an ovarian tumor with teeth and was buried with a possible healing object.While excavating an ancient Egyptian cemetery, archaeologists made a rare discovery: an ovarian tumor nestled in the pelvis of a woman who died more than three millennia ago. The tumor, a bony mass with two teeth, is the oldest known example of a teratoma, a rare type of tumor that typically occurs in ovaries or testicles.A teratoma can be benign or malignant, according to the Cleveland Clinic, and it is usually made up of various tissues, such as muscle, hair, teeth or bone....
  • Revealing the Face and Identity of the Controversial Mummy KV55

    09/08/2023 9:57:18 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies
    Ancient Origins ^ | March 19, 2021 | Alicia McDermott
    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...
  • Unbottling the scent of the afterlife: New study of ancient Egyptian mummification balms

    09/08/2023 7:53:36 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | August 31, 2023 | Max Planck Society
    In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3,500 years ago...The team's research centered on the mummification substances used to embalm the noble lady Senetnay in the 18th dynasty, circa 1450 BCE. The researchers utilized advanced analytical techniques—including gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, high-temperature gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry—to reconstruct the substances that helped to preserve and scent Senetnay for eternity. Their research has...
  • Ancient tombs point to rich families from wealthy Cypriot community

    06/11/2022 5:55:38 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies
    Cyprus Mail ^ | June 10, 2022 | Jean Christou
    Swedish archaeologists in cooperation with the antiquities department have excavated two burial tombs at the site of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia that they believe belonged to two rich families judging by the nature of the finds, they said on Friday.This large Late Bronze Age city, which flourished between 1630 and 1150 BC, is situated along the shores of the Larnaca Salt Lake near the mosque of Hala Sultan Tekke.Both tombs contained material from the outgoing 15th and the 14th centuries BC, which chronologically corresponds to the Late Cypriot IIA-B period, the Late Helladic IIIA1-2 and the famous Egyptian 18th Dynasty. One of the...
  • A Sculpture Depicting King Tut as a Black Man Is Sparking International Outrage

    06/01/2023 11:29:14 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 42 replies
    ARTnet ^ | May 22, 2023 | Sarah Cascone
    The statue is featured in a Dutch exhibition that pairs Egyptian antiquities with works from Black culture.What did the ancient Egyptians look like? A new exhibition at National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands, has sparked controversy by including a contemporary artwork that appears to depict the Pharaoh Tutankhamun as Black. “Kemet: Egypt in Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul and Funk” pairs Egyptian antiquities from the museum’s collection with work inspired by ancient Egyptian culture by created by musicians of the African diaspora, including Miles Davis, Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, and Rihanna. The Leiden exhibition acknowledges that while generations of Black musicians...
  • Is This Fungus Behind the Pharaoh's Curse on King Tut's Tomb?

    06/01/2023 11:23:23 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 13 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | MAY 26, 2023
    Many people died after visiting King Tut's tomb in Egypt. What exactly happened, and how does it involve the Aspergillus fungus?The tomb of the 19-year-old pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt from 1323-1332 BCE was discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter and has since become one of Egypt's most popular archaeological attractions. Tourists from all over the world come to the Valley of the Kings on the Nile's west bank to see the tomb. To this day, it remains surprisingly intact, decorated with frescoes, statues and the gilded sarcophagus containing the original mummy of King Tut. But all of this beauty...
  • Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World with Dr. Bob Brier

    05/27/2023 4:49:17 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    YouTube ^ | 7 months ago | World History Encyclopedia
    Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World with Dr. Bob Brier | 22:16World History Encyclopedia | 73.9K subscribers | 3.1K views | 7 months ago
  • Surprise Finds At Egypt Temple "Change Everything"

    12/19/2007 3:43:27 AM PST · by blam · 43 replies · 3,172+ views
    National Geographic News ^ | 12-17-2007 | Steven Stanek
    Surprise Finds at Egypt Temple "Change Everything" Steven Stanek in Luxor, Egypt for National Geographic NewsDecember 17, 2007 A series of surprising discoveries has been made at the foot of Egypt's famous Temple of Amun at Karnak, archaeologists say. The new finds include ancient ceremonial baths, a pharaoh's private entry ramp, and the remains of a massive wall built some 3,000 years ago to reinforce what was then the bank of the Nile River. A host of other artifacts, including hundreds of bronze coins, has also been found. Together the discoveries are causing experts to reconsider the history of the...
  • Spanish Egyptologists unearth 60 mummies at Luxor site

    01/04/2023 9:46:33 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 27 replies
    La Prensa ^ | December 29, 2022 | Shady Roshdy
    A group of Egyptologists from Spain have discovered two tombs that housed almost 60 mummies at site in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor.“The most important thing this year is the discovery of two tombs, almost six meters deep,” made up of “two chambers each and housing around 60 mummies and remains of mummies,” Francisco J. Martin, the president of the Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project, told EFE.Martín, who leads a team of 22 Spanish Egyptologists and eight Egyptian experts, said the tombs were dated after Vizier Amenhotep-Huy’s tomb (18th dynasty).The site is a rich example of the architectural style and...