Posted on 09/11/2002 3:08:55 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
BOOK FEATURE: The man who really found Tutankhamen (British Corporal Spy)
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/31/2005 1:45:59 PM PST · 14 replies · 802+ views
Middle East Times/World peace Times | March 31, 2005 | Desmond Zwar
CAIRO, Egypt -- For the past 36 years journalist and author Desmond Zwar has shared a great secret: that it was not archaeologist Howard Carter who was responsible for the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, but a humble British corporal whose very presence on the site had to be kept confidential; who in the last days of the dig took a photograph that changed history. Richard Adamson was a 23-year-old spy. He had infiltrated the Wafdist Party -- dedicated to overthrowing British rule in Egypt -- and as a result 28 Egyptians were arrested in Cairo, four of them sentenced to...
Curses! Mummy Tale Not True
Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 12/20/2002 6:39:28 PM PST · 14 replies · 312+ views
Yahoo! News | 12/20/02 | Amanda Gardner - HealthScoutNews
Curses! Mummy Tale Not True Fri Dec 20, 2:53 PM ET By Amanda GardnerHealthScoutNews Reporter FRIDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthScoutNews) -- Tut tut to those who believe in the mummy's curse. Reuters Photo According to a study reported in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal, there is no mummy's curse associated with the opening of the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt. The study confirms what other experts have long suspected. "I've never had any weird experience with a mummy, and I've worked with them for 30 years," says Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University's...
Fractured Leg Bone Not The End Of Tutankhamen Mystery
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/01/2005 1:30:06 PM PST · 10 replies · 668+ views
Science Daily/University Of Liverpool | 2005-04-01
Fractured Leg Bone Not The End Of Tutankhamen Mystery Original X-rays of Tutankhamen's body, taken by scientists at the University of Liverpool, could throw new light on the mystery of the young King's death. Robert Connolly, Senior Lecturer in Physical Anthropology from the Universityís Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, is working with the Egyptian authorities to analyse recent findings from a CT scan of the mummy and has been asked to comment on suggestions by scientists that Tutankhamen died as a result of an infection following an injury to the femur bone. Mr Connolly has re-analysed the original...
Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/30/2004 9:42:36 AM PDT · 11 replies · 466+ views
BBC History | September 5, 2002 | Dr Marc Gabolde
[T]he exclusively masculine epithets referring to this individual in the same tomb and on a now-vanished block at Memphis, confirm that we are dealing with a man - as distinct from the pharaoh-queen Ankh(et)kheperure Neferneferuaten... Contrary to Ancient Egyptian custom, Smenkhkare is not presented under a coronation name and a birth name in his two cartouches, but under two coronation names. The explanation for this curious fact seems to me clear: both his royal names were composed on the occasion of his coronation. He therefore must have had another name beforehand... The absence of a birth name, the lack of...
Tutankhamen Died of Gangrene
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 05/12/2005 12:25:42 AM PDT · 13 replies · 511+ views
Middle East Times | May 11, 2005
CAIRO -- Egyptian scientists claim that they have finally lifted the veil of mystery surrounding famed Pharaoh Tutankhamen's death, saying that he died of a swift attack of gangrene after breaking his leg. "After consultations with Italian and Swiss experts Egyptian scientists ... have found that a fracture in the boy king's left leg a day before his death was infected with gangrene and led to his passing," Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said. "The fracture was not sustained during the mummification process or as a result of some damage to the mummy as claimed by [British archaeologist Howard] Carter,"...
The Universal Christ
Posted by TBP
On Religion 02/16/2005 12:33:54 PM PST · 60 replies · 820+ views
Select Smart | Unknown
Let me put something out there to ponder regarding Jesus Christ - WHO WAS HE? - He was born of the virgin Maya, who was considered the "Queen of Heaven. He was of royal descent. He crushed a serpent's head. - He performed miracles and wonders, healed the sick, fed 500 men from a "small basket of cakes," and walked on water. - He abolished idolatry, was a "sower of the word," and preached "the establishment of a kingdom of righteousness." - He taught chastity, temperance, tolerance, compassion, love, and the equality of all. - He was transfigured on a...
X-ray attempt to find out why Tutankhamen died
Posted by F15Eagle
On News/Activism 11/13/2004 9:03:24 PM PST · 177 replies · 1,789+ views
CNN.Com - Science & Space | Saturday, November 13, 2004 Posted: 10:51 PM EST (0351 GMT) | Reuters
CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) -- Egypt plans to X-ray the mummy of Tutankhamen to find out what killed the king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and died while only a teenager. Archaeologists will move Tutankhamen's body from its tomb, which was discovered packed with treasure in 1922, to Cairo for tests which should resolve the mystery over whether he died naturally or was murdered. "We will know about any diseases he had, any kind of injuries and his real age," Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass told Reuters. "We will know the answer to whether he died normally or...
EGYPT - NEW TOMBS DISCOVERED
Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 06/06/2002 8:10:29 AM PDT · 22 replies · 622+ views
AP Wire | June 6, 2002 | SARAH EL DEEB
SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) _ Archaeologists have unearthed six 3,500-year-old tombs they believe reveal important details about the structure of government in a period considered Egypt's golden age, the nation's top archaeologist said Thursday. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Antiquities, also discussed an exhibit of Egyptian treasures to tour the United States beginning June 30 at Washington's National Gallery of Art. The exhibit is bigger than the blockbuster King Tut show of the 1970s. Earlier this week, archaeologists working on a dig supervised by Hawass just outside Cairo, found the six tombs at the foot of the...
King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine (Coming to the USA in 2005 for 27 month/4 city tour)
Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 12/03/2004 7:41:03 PM PST · 75 replies · 3,478+ views
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 12/3/04 | Jill Serjeant - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The gilded treasures of King Tutankhamun are on their way back to the United States in what could prove a gold rush for Egypt and big business. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" starts a 27-month tour of the United States in June 2005 that will mark the first return here in more than two decades of the precious artifacts buried with the mysterious boy king. The exhibit is twice the size of the late-1970s King Tut global tour which launched an era of "blockbuster" museum exhibitions. This year's version will charge up to...
King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2004 11:09:30 PM PST · 33 replies · 1,078+ views
Reuters ^ | Fri, Dec 03, 2004 | Jill Serjeant
The exhibit is twice the size of the late-1970s King Tut global tour which launched an era of "blockbuster" museum exhibitions. This year's version will charge up to $30 per ticket and give corporate backers a share in the profits, heralding a new trend in partnerships between private companies, museums and the antiquities' home countries.
King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists
Posted by echoBoomer
On News/Activism 06/08/2005 4:49:47 AM PDT · 209 replies · 3,440+ views
NBC 4 ^ | 4:03 pm PDT June 7, 2005
King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists. Critics Want Busts Depicting Tut As White Removed. LOS ANGELES -- African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate. The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse. All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show...
King Tut's skin color a topic of controversy
Posted by optik_b
On News/Activism 06/16/2005 6:59:26 AM PDT · 119 replies · 2,100+ views
LA Life ^ | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 | Evan Henerson
King Tut's skin color a topic of controversy By Evan Henerson Staff Writer Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - Nobody can be sure exactly what the boy king Tutankhamun looked like. But a group of African-American activists charting the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibition are certain of one thing: He didn't look white. Following an appearance before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, activists from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Committee for the Elimination of Media Offensive to African People, and the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations plan...
King Tut treasure back in U.S. as Egypt seeks gold -Bubba seeks exibit in Arkansas
Posted by Tumbleweed_Connection
On News/Activism 06/19/2005 7:42:26 AM PDT · 8 replies · 333+ views
Reuters ^ | 6/19/05 | Nigel Hunt
The gilded treasures of Tutankhamun have returned to the United States more than 25 years after the sensational success of their first visit, and this time Egypt intends to cash in on the enduring popularity of the boy king. The comeback museum tour has all of the trappings of a Hollywood blockbuster sequel: a "gold carpet" opening in Los Angeles, a high-powered marketing effort and the potential for a massive box office with tickets as high as $30 each. "I am not going to send any exhibit for free anymore. We took you for a free lunch and dinner a...
New Likeness of King Tut on Display
Posted by Asmodeus
On News/Activism 09/30/2002 10:03:56 PM PDT · 22 replies · 1,740+ views
Austin American Statesman ^ | Austin American Statesman
LONDON (AP)--A fiberglass bust that purportedly shows the true face of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun went on display Monday at London's Science Museum. The likeness was crafted as part of an investigation into how the teenage pharaoh died more than 3,000 years ago. The fiberglass cast of Tut's head, based on computer models generated from 1969 X-rays of his mummified corpse, shows an attractive round-headed youth with full lips. But it bears little resemblance to the golden funeral mask found in the pharaoh's tomb. The opulent tomb of Tut, who died around 1350 B.C., was found almost intact by British...
Outraged black activists protest that King Tut has been whitewashed
Posted by jasoncann
On News/Activism 06/16/2005 9:54:04 AM PDT · 124 replies · 2,340+ views
(AFP) ^ | 16 June 2005
LOS ANGELES - US black activists demanded Wednesday that a bust of Tutankhamun be removed from a landmark exhibition of artefacts from the Egyptian boy king’s tomb because the statue portrays him as white. The bust that activists object to is a central part of ”Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” the first US exhibition of relics from king Tut’s tomb in nearly 30 years, which opens here Thursday amid Hollywood fanfare. The face of the legendary pharaoh, who died around 3,300 years ago at the age of just 19, was reconstructed earlier this year through images collected...
VANITY -- King Tut Exhibit a waste of time (though not of money)
Posted by Jubal Harshaw
On News/Activism 06/27/2005 11:01:22 AM PDT · 56 replies · 1,254+ views
Just came back from the King Tut exhibit in LA. I saw the exhibit in '76, and have seen the Tut exhibit in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and have been to the Luxor Museum / Valley of Kings / Valley of Queens / Abu Simbel / etc. My girlfriend never saw any of the Tut exhibits before, so together we represent a wide range of pre-existing knowledge about Tut and about ancient Egypt. We both thought the LA exhibit, soon touring the USA, was a waste of time. The exhibit included no closely Tut-related paraphernalia bigger than a breadbox....
Who Killed King Tut?
Posted by afraidfortherepublic
On News/Activism 09/11/2002 3:08:55 PM PDT · 40 replies · 890+ views
Time.com ^ | 9-11-02 | JEFFREY KLUGER AND ANDREA DORFMAN
The boy King died young and was buried in haste. Now a pair of U.S. gumshoes, armed with modern forensics, is trying to crack an ancient case The tomb of the boy King Tutankhamen created a sensation from the moment it was uncovered in 1922. One of the few royal burial chambers that survived the centuries relatively intact, it was by far the richest — filled with gold, ivory and carved wooden treasures, including what may be the world's most famous funerary mask. But there was also something troubling about the way King Tut was buried — hints and omissions...
Col. Mustard in the Pyramid with a lead pipe.
Aye, 'twas Ay.
Meth addict?
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