Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female ruler.
Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass made the official announcement at a packed news conference in Cairo.
It is being billed as the biggest archaeological find in Egypt since the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb.
The mummy was discovered by Howard Carter in 1903, but wasn't recognised for decades as Hatshepsut's.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Mayonaze wrote:Were the skulls molded in infancy to an elongated form? I recall some cultures did this.
Yep, the upper classes in ancient Egypt did that too. Like the Mayans BTW. In Egypt it was high fashion to have an elongated head. Witness the headdresses:
Thank you for the articles and all the pics. Hatshepsut is my hero, or at least she was when I was a teenager. Now I just read anything about her that I see.
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
"Give us the timber or we'll go all stupid and lawless on your butts". --Redcloud, MTF
Starflower wrote:Thank you for the articles and all the pics. Hatshepsut is my hero, or at least she was when I was a teenager. Now I just read anything about her that I see.
Hi Star, It's too bad that so much of her history has been lost. I guess her son didn't want her remembered as a "King".
I do: at the current state of medical technology – GM and cloning come to mind – males are effectively not required for procreation anymore.
We are redundant!
