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Hatshepsut mummy identified
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:49 am
by Rokcet Scientist
BBC: Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 10:27 GMT 11:27 UK
'Find of century' for Egyptology
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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 244516.stm
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:06 am
by Minimalist
Strange head.
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:03 am
by Forum Monk
Awesome pic, R/S. Thanks for the post.
(Thank God there were no pictures of the wet-nurse! - can't imagine what a mummified wet-nurse must look like.)
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:08 am
by Mayonaze
Were the skulls molded in infancy to an elongated form? I recall some cultures did this.
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:12 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
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:
Were they emulating the Elohim . . . ?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:22 am
by Beagle
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:27 am
by Beagle
http://guardians.net/hawass/hatshepsut/ ... hepsut.htm
A report with pics by Zahi Hawass himself. And yes - the big Z is in most of them.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:45 am
by Starflower
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:23 am
by Digit
Love the way in which it starts as Discovery Channel then becomes 'Me'.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:44 am
by Beagle
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".
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:58 am
by Digit
Male chauvenism seems to go back a long way don't it.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:19 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Digit wrote:
Male chauvenism seems to go back a long way don't it.
We
got to, Digit!
Without it we have nothing . . .
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:25 pm
by Digit
Oh, I don't know RS!
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:37 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Digit wrote:Oh, I don't know RS!
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!
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:47 pm
by Digit
Till the car needs repairing or the lady wants to know about the off side rule