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  • 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.
  • Amenhotep I -- the undiscovered tomb [ 18th Dynasty Egypt ]

    11/14/2010 1:32:46 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 33 replies
    News from the Valley of the Kings 'blog ^ | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | Kate Phizackerley
    The first announcement of a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings came in August 2005 when the Egyptian State Information Service announced that an Egyptian Polish team had been given to excavate the tomb of the New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep I in the Valley of the Kings. As I describe below, unfortunately this was mis-reported by the press how announced the stunning find of an intact tomb. Amenhotep I was the second pharaoh (1526-1506 BC) of the 18th Dynasty. His tomb was mentioned in the Abbott Papyrus, one of the highlights of the British Museum. The papyrus dates...