[NormsRevenge]

RUH-roh! a little over a year ago.. ;-)

Who da MUMMy *-?

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Hatshepsut mummy found ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1603736/posts
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat ^ 03/26/2006 8:43:05 PM PST · 38 replies · 2,380+ views

Egyptian State News Service ^ | Friday, March 24, 2006 | unattributed
The true mummy of ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was discovered in the third floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Secretary General of Supreme Council for Antiquities Zahi Hawwas revealed on Thursday. The mummy was missing among thousands of artifacts lying in the museum, he said during his lecture at the New York-based Metropolitan Museum of Arts. He said for decades archaeologists believed that a mummy found in Luxor was that of the Egyptian queen. It was a streak of luck, he said, to find this mummy. The Metropolitan is hosting a Hatshepsut exhibition that displays 270 artifacts on the...

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fresh Wind]

"The body of the mummy now in KV 60 with its huge breasts may be the wet-nurse, the original occupant of the coffin...

Does Bill Clinton know about this?

[Tax-chick]

Interesting.

[wildbill]

Should be easy to tell. Didn’t Hashepsut appear in all her paintings and statues with a beard?

Leading many archeologists to argue she was really Italian.

[SunkenCiv]

Pharaoh Hatshepsut Died in Pain
by Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News
July 2, 2007

Obese, plagued with decayed teeth and perhaps a skin disease, Queen Hatshepsut might have spent her last days in pain... Bald in front but with long hair in back, the mummy shows an overweight woman just over 5 feet tall, who died at about 50... The daughter of Pharaoh Tuthmosis I and wife of Tuthmosis II, her half-brother, Hatshepsut reigned from 1498 to 1483 B.C. as the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty... When her husband-brother died, Hatshepsut became regent for the boy-king Tuthmosis III, the child of Tuthmosis II and a concubine... Examination of the mummy's mouth and her missing molar, which led to her identification as Hatshepsut, revealed very poor dental hygiene... Obesity and poor oral hygiene suggested to Selim and colleagues that she might have suffered from diabetes... One thing, however, is certain: Hatshepsut had cancer, cancer that had metastasized.