New discoveries and studies from mummification workshop complex at Saqqara [26th Dynasty]

Ahram Online ^ | Sunday 3 May 2020 | Nevine El-Aref

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Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced that the newly discovered chamber contained four wooden coffins in poor state of preservation.

Dr Ramadan Badri Hussein, archaeological supervisor at the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs, said that one of the coffins belongs to a woman called Didibastett. She was buried with six canopic jars, which contradicts with the custom in ancient Egypt which was to embalm the lungs, stomach, intestines and liver of the deceased, and then to store them in four jars under the protection of four gods, known as the Four Sons of Horus...

After studying texts on the coffins and sarcophagi in the burial chambers, the mission identified priests and priestesses of a mysterious snake goddess, known as Niut-shaes. Indications are that the priests of Niut-shaes were buried together, and that she became a prominent goddess during the 26th Dynasty.

A priestess and a priest of Niut-shaes, who were buried in the same burial chamber, were possibly Egyptianised immigrants. Their names, Ayput and Tjanimit, were common to the Libyan community that settled in Egypt from the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 943-716 BC) onward. Ancient Egypt was a multicultural society that received immigrants from different parts of the ancient world, including Greeks, Libyans, and Phoenicians among others.

Hussein said that the mission conducted non-invasive testing, called X-ray fluorescence, on the gilded silver mask that was discovered on the face of the mummy of a priestess of the goddess Niut-shaes. This test determined the purity of the mask's silver at 99.07 percent, higher than Sterling Silver at 93.5 percent. This gilded silver mask is the first discovered in Egypt since 1939, and the third such mask to ever be found in Egypt.

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One of *those* topics.

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Oh I thought this was a Ruth Bader Ginsburg thread.

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LOL

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I miss Zahi Hawass. He knew how to work the camera and make it interesting.

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Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History

VIII, 173. Ramses I is identical with, Necho 1. He was one of the viceroys under Essarhadon. After the death of Essarhadon, when the viceroys took sides with Tirhaka the Ethiopian and were killed by Assurbanipal, Ramses I, pardoned by the Assyrian King, was installed by him as the king of Egypt.

Necho I

This Necho lives in history as Ramses I of the Nineteenth, and Necho I of the Twenty-sixth Dynasties. He was installed by Assurbanipal in ca. -655, a score of years after Haremhab’s final expulsion. We shall continue, in this reconstruction of history, to refer to him as Ramses I, although an earlier king of that name, Ramses Siptah, held the throne briefly decades earlier, in the time of Sargon II, and might therefore have a better claim to that title.

It is sometimes surmised that it was Haremhab who appointed Ramses I to the throne; but the course of this reconstruction makes it evident that some twenty-two years passed from the time of Haremhab’s expulsion by Tirhaka (ca. -688) and the accession of Ramses I (ca. -665). Historians have wondered that none of the extant inscriptions of Ramses I contains any reference to Haremhab, and that no traceable relation of Ramses I to the family of Haremhab has been found.(4) Instead, Ramses I calls himself “Conductor of the Chariot of His Majesty,” “Deputy of His Majesty in North and South,” “Fanbearer of the King on His Right Hand.” The similarity of these titles to those borne earlier by Haremhab has been noted -- as we saw, both Haremhab and Ramses I were appointees of Assyrian kings: Haremhab of Sennacherib and Ramses I of Assurbanipal.

258. Ramses III is identical with Nectanebo I of the Greek authors. He lived not in the twelfth but in the fourth century.
259. In Herodotus there can be no reference to Ramses III, because the historian lived before the pharaoh. The history of Egypt by Herodotus, though defective in details, is more nearly accurate than that of the later and modern historians, because he placed the history of the Eighteenth, the Ethiopian, and the Nineteenth Dynasties in fairly accurate order.
260. “Invasion of Egypt by the archaic Greeks” in the twelfth century is a fallacy. The Greeks who participated in the wars of Ramses III and who are shown as changing sides, were at first soldiers of Chabrias, assisting Egypt, and then troops of Iphicrates, opposing Ramses III.
261. Agesilaus, the King of Sparta, had already arrived in Egypt in the days of... [Tachos (Ramses IV)] and Ramses III, who referred to his arrival, mentioned also his notably small stature.
262. The Pereset, with whom Ramses III was at war, were the Persians of Artaxerxes II under the satrap Pharnambazus, and not the Philistines.
263. The war described by Ramses III, and by Diodorus and other classical authors (the war of Nectanebo 1), is one and the same war of 374 BCE

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I don't focus on him. /rimshot

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I miss Zahi Hawass. He knew how to work the camera and make it interesting.

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He also know how to work the women interviewers ... as well as keep the status quo. Without Hawass, Egyptology has a chance of becoming a lot more interesting: new ideas and new discoveries have a chance to be made public without covering up to maintain fake Egyptian history, based on forgeries, 17th-early 20th century amateur archeology, and a lot of wishful thinking; important sites like the Sphinx Temple and Valley Temples which were never fully explored in the early 19th century have a have a chance to be reexamined; modern dating technics permitted and results that contradict the status quo, published.

Hawass, good riddance to bad rubbish

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When I started reading that excerpt, something in the tone and wording seemed familiar 0 I guessed it could only be one person, and on checking I was right:

Theses For The Reconstruction of Ancient History
From The End of The Middle Kingdom in Egypt to The Advent of Alexander The Great
By Immanuel Velikovski, 1945

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It’s at the link, I managed to not clip all the code from the earlier post where I’d put it before, I guess.

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Well put.