Egypt's Female Pharaoh mummy found

[Story]

CAIRO, June 26 -- The centuries-old search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, may finally have ended.

According to US-based Discovery Channel, Egypt's antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass will announce at a media conference in Cairo on Wednesday "the most important find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun" in 1922.

http://news.africast.com/africastv/article.php?newsID=62289

Rut ro... this is how *those kind* of movies always start.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I saw this on Yahoo and various other sites yesterday.

Seems a bit shaky right now. Could be, might be, the position of th arm, the wet nurse coffin, skeptical egyptologists . . . and so on.

bk

 

[Story]

the toe knows...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6918687.stm

An artificial big toe found on the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy could be the world's earliest functional fake body part, UK experts believe.

A Manchester University team hope to prove that the leather and wood "Cairo toe" not only looked the part but also helped its owner walk.

They will test a replica in volunteers whose right big toe is missing.

If true, the toe will predate the currently considered earliest practical prosthesis - a fake leg from 300BC.

 

[LocktownDog]

The Discovery Channel just played a two-hour special on the news footage, interviews, etc. I enjoyed it greatly.

Richard

 

[dr greg]

but was she a crack ho as well

I always found this fascinating

http://forums.techguy.org/civilized-debate/593299-cocaine-mummy.html

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Curse of the Cocaine Mummies.html

 

[cookie]

fascinating.. Greg! Thanks..I have been following the revelations of the 15th century and earlier Chinese voyages that is creating great interest in the historical world as well...

 

[jamespowers]

I always found this fascinating

http://forums.techguy.org/civilized-debate/593299-cocaine-mummy.html

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Curse of the Cocaine Mummies.html

I can believe it. People do not give ancient civilizations the credit they deserve. Academics are the worst for holding old theories when faced with new evidence because many have much invested in old theories. :eusa_doh:

 

[dr greg]

careful though!

fascinating.. Greg! Thanks..I have been following the revelations of the 15th century and earlier Chinese voyages that is creating great interest in the historical world as well...

That book about the Chinese navigators supposedly circumnavigating the world was seriously debunked on Four Corners last year. The guy is a charlatan apparently, with previous form.

 

[cookie]

That book about the Chinese navigators supposedly circumnavigating the world was seriously debunked on Four Corners last year. The guy is a charlatan apparently, with previous form.

That is interesting because they have a website that has been sending me continuous info on the various discoveries. There is a film and exhibititions in China and elswhere and revised and updated copy of my book etc etc...

 

[dr greg]

seeing is believing I spose

There's someone with a film about finding Noah's Ark at the local hall every few months as well, it's something the Chinese would like to be true, and makes a nice story, but make up your own mind I always say

http://1421exposed.com/

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1702333.htm

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/Client/Message.aspx?b=21&t=19&a=0&ps=20&m=8238&dm=1