Dozens of Mummies Unearthed at Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
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Archaeologists have discovered the final resting place of at least 50 royal Egyptians — including princes, princesses and infants — while excavating a trashed tomb at the Valley of the Kings.
Hieratic inscriptions (a cursive form of hieroglyphs) revealed that most of the mummies in the tomb were related to two pharaohs, Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III, who ruled during the 14th century B.C. The dead included at least eight previously unknown royal daughters, four princes and some children, the archaeologists said.
During Egypt's New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.), royals were buried at the Valley of the Kings, a site along the Nile, opposite modern-day Luxor, about 312 miles (500 kilometers) south of Cairo. King Tutankhamun's tomb is among the best preserved burials to have been discovered at the Valley of the Kings, and new tombs are still being discovered and studied at the site today.
One of those newly studied tombs is KV 40. From the surface, the only hint of a burial chamber was a depression in the ground. Excavations revealed a 16-foot-deep (5 meters) shaft, a corridor and four rooms in shambles. The 3,300-year-old tomb was likely plundered for its gold and wood during antiquity, and later looted for any other valuable goods that could be sold. The archaeologists, who have been excavating in the region since 2009, found textiles, mummy bandages, linen cloths, bones and other scattered funerary artifacts in the tomb. These objects were covered with soot from a heavy fire, presumably set by grave robbers of the late 19th century.
The adult mummies in KV 40 are largely fragmentary, likely torn apart by grave robbers, but infant corpses in the underground burial chamber remain intact, said researcher Susanne Bickel, of the University of Basel in Switzerland. And while most infants who died would have been buried in a simple fashion at the time, royal children buried in KV 40 seem to have been given a proper mummification, Bickel added.
"They are wrapped in numerous layers of bandages and treated with bitumen," a sticky embalming substance, Bickel told Live Science in an email.
For now, the archaeologists have not determined a cause of death for these infants; anthropological investigations are planned for the next dig season, Bickel said.
"What is certain is that they did not die at the same time (no epidemic), but over a certain time span," Bickel said.
Bits of coffins made from wood and a plastered material known as cartonnage indicate that tomb KV 40 was used again as a burial ground in the ninth century B.C., for members of priestly families during Egypt's Third Intermediate Period.
Studying the newfound mummies and their scattered grave goods could shed light on the lives of people in the pharaohs' royal court, Bickel and her colleagues said.
http://news.yahoo.com/dozens-mummies-unearthed-egypts-valley-kings-213022444.html
Hieratic inscriptions (a cursive form of hieroglyphs) revealed that most of the mummies in the tomb were related to two pharaohs, Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III, who ruled during the 14th century B.C. The dead included at least eight previously unknown royal daughters, four princes and some children, the archaeologists said.
During Egypt's New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.), royals were buried at the Valley of the Kings, a site along the Nile, opposite modern-day Luxor, about 312 miles (500 kilometers) south of Cairo. King Tutankhamun's tomb is among the best preserved burials to have been discovered at the Valley of the Kings, and new tombs are still being discovered and studied at the site today.
One of those newly studied tombs is KV 40. From the surface, the only hint of a burial chamber was a depression in the ground. Excavations revealed a 16-foot-deep (5 meters) shaft, a corridor and four rooms in shambles. The 3,300-year-old tomb was likely plundered for its gold and wood during antiquity, and later looted for any other valuable goods that could be sold. The archaeologists, who have been excavating in the region since 2009, found textiles, mummy bandages, linen cloths, bones and other scattered funerary artifacts in the tomb. These objects were covered with soot from a heavy fire, presumably set by grave robbers of the late 19th century.
The adult mummies in KV 40 are largely fragmentary, likely torn apart by grave robbers, but infant corpses in the underground burial chamber remain intact, said researcher Susanne Bickel, of the University of Basel in Switzerland. And while most infants who died would have been buried in a simple fashion at the time, royal children buried in KV 40 seem to have been given a proper mummification, Bickel added.
"They are wrapped in numerous layers of bandages and treated with bitumen," a sticky embalming substance, Bickel told Live Science in an email.
For now, the archaeologists have not determined a cause of death for these infants; anthropological investigations are planned for the next dig season, Bickel said.
"What is certain is that they did not die at the same time (no epidemic), but over a certain time span," Bickel said.
Bits of coffins made from wood and a plastered material known as cartonnage indicate that tomb KV 40 was used again as a burial ground in the ninth century B.C., for members of priestly families during Egypt's Third Intermediate Period.
Studying the newfound mummies and their scattered grave goods could shed light on the lives of people in the pharaohs' royal court, Bickel and her colleagues said.
http://news.yahoo.com/dozens-mummies-unearthed-egypts-valley-kings-213022444.html
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These were the "Black" Pharaohs........
Amenhotep III's wife.......
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They were ? ?!!!!!
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Great drop, gotta love the info
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INB4 Hollywood makes a movie about Amenhotep ,starring Tom Hanks
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Its hilarious how they keep making Ramses the second light skin when DNA proved he was fully African and more African then american blacks.
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Disrespectful
Go to England and try to pull up there kings and queens, hell the ? that used to serve the king and see what'll happen
This ? ain't good for no one but self serving ? who want to exploit our history and I ain't with it -
Disrespectful
Go to England and try to pull up there kings and queens, hell the ? that used to serve the king and see what'll happen
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/support-for-richard-iii-campaign-grows-as-over-1-000-sign-petition-1-6583061
Support for Richard III campaign grows as over 1,000 sign petition
Campaigners are expecting a judgment over whether permission for the regal bones to be reinterred in Leicester should be overturned will be made in the next couple of weeks.
The Plantagenet Alliance, a group of the king’s collateral descendants who want his remains to be reinterred in York Minster, are challenging the processes surrounding the Ministry of Justice’s decision to grant a licence to allow the University of Leicester to remove the monarch’s remains and bury him at Leicester Cathedral.
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Darth Sidious wrote: »Disrespectful
Go to England and try to pull up there kings and queens, hell the ? that used to serve the king and see what'll happen
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/support-for-richard-iii-campaign-grows-as-over-1-000-sign-petition-1-6583061
Support for Richard III campaign grows as over 1,000 sign petition
Campaigners are expecting a judgment over whether permission for the regal bones to be reinterred in Leicester should be overturned will be made in the next couple of weeks.
The Plantagenet Alliance, a group of the king’s collateral descendants who want his remains to be reinterred in York Minster, are challenging the processes surrounding the Ministry of Justice’s decision to grant a licence to allow the University of Leicester to remove the monarch’s remains and bury him at Leicester Cathedral.
The difference between us and them.I aint even mad at them. -
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So...is Zahi Hawas and his crew claiming they were not "sub-Saharan"
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So...is Zahi Hawas and his crew claiming they were not "sub-Saharan"
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? that old crackkka and him wanting to be Egyptian when he is just descended from illiterate and barbaric people with no culture and identity except for violence.
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We need some black archeologists present at this site before them fools start hiding ? and fabricating stories. I'm serious tho, I'm feelin some type of way already knowing they ? over there unchecked about to make up all kinds of fuckery.
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We need some black archeologists present at this site before them fools start hiding ? and fabricating stories. I'm serious tho, I'm feelin some type of way already knowing they ? over there unchecked about to make up all kinds of fuckery.
Them white folks are out here collecting African artifacts like comic books. I just stumbled on a youtube video of an old white guy having an entire mini-museum collection of African mask in his house. Like, why are we not concerned with this type of stuff and they are? They leaving no stone unturned out here when you think about it. -
I'm confused. Are you mad that some white people show love to African cultural artifacts or that black people don't.
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »I'm confused. Are you mad that some white people show love to African cultural artifacts or that black people don't.
Mad? No, bruh. Just an observation. ... and slight concern.
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I have a concern that it took white folks to preserve these artifacts in the first place. Before that, there was nothing but looting and the artifacts were left to rot in history.
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FuriousOne wrote: »I have a concern that it took white folks to preserve these artifacts in the first place. Before that, there was nothing but looting and the artifacts were left to rot in history.
You ain't foolin no one yo, you white -
Judah Back wrote: »FuriousOne wrote: »I have a concern that it took white folks to preserve these artifacts in the first place. Before that, there was nothing but looting and the artifacts were left to rot in history.
You ain't foolin no one yo, you white
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FuriousOne wrote: »I have a concern that it took white folks to preserve these artifacts in the first place. Before that, there was nothing but looting and the artifacts were left to rot in history.
Let's not give white people too much credit. For every artifact they've preserved, there is at least one they've defaced or destroyed in their effort to white wash history.