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  Dr. Nilgün Birgören    Premium Member   Group moderator

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  Re^10: Egypt's newest antiquities

  Hello everybody,
  I have just come back from Egypt.. and wish to share the below article with you.
  
  King Tut is certainly more famous now than in his own time. The boy king died suddenly at the age of 19, before he could make a monument, or even a name, for himself. But just look at him now. He, or at least his stuff—the gilded masks, the lapis lazuli necklaces, the ornate thrones—is on a second blockbuster tour, traveling the world displayed safely behind glass in grand museums. Meanwhile, the pharaoh himself lies mummified in a decidedly unroyal-looking tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
  
  There is more to it: the Saqqara palm grove, Colossi of Memnon, Temple of Philae..
  Please click http://www.newsweek.com/authors/tara-weingarten.html
  
  Kind regards,
  Nilgun
  
  • 22 Aug 2010, 7:54 pm
  Dr. Nilgün Birgören wrote: > Hello everybody, > I have just come back from Egypt.. and wish to share the below > article with you. > > King Tut is certainly more famous now than in his own time. The boy > king died suddenly at the age of 19, before he could make a monument, > or even a name, for himself. But just look at him now. He, or at > least his stuff—the gilded masks, the lapis lazuli necklaces, the > ornate thrones—is on a second blockbuster tour, traveling the world > displayed safely behind glass in grand museums. Meanwhile, the > pharaoh himself lies mummified in a decidedly unroyal-looking tomb in > Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. > > There is more to it: the Saqqara palm grove, Colossi of Memnon, > Temple of Philae.. > Please click http://www.newsweek.com/authors/tara-weingarten.html > > Kind regards, > Nilgun
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  Desiree McCourt    Premium Member   Group moderator

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  Re^11: Egypt's newest antiquities

  There are more antiquities to Egypt than just the Pharaonic period. Pitty Egypt only started considering this a few years ago,. So many cultural highlights rotten and fade away in the old part of Cairo.
  
  • 25 Aug 2010, 08:19 am
  Desiree McCourt wrote: > There are more antiquities to Egypt than just the Pharaonic period. > Pitty Egypt only started considering this a few years ago,. So many > cultural highlights rotten and fade away in the old part of Cairo.
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  Dr. Nilgün Birgören    Premium Member   Group moderator

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  Re^12: Tutankhamen's grandfather ..

  Dear friends,
  
  Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed part of a 3,000-year-old statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of the young King Tutankhamen, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said Saturday.
  
  The statue was found near the northern entrance of Amenhotep III's temple and depicts the king sitting down on a throne with Amun.
  
  The red-granite top half of the statue was discovered at the site of Amenhotep III's funerary temple in the southern city of Luxor.
  
  The newly discovered artifact, which measures 130 cm in height and 95 cm in width, and has many details of the facial features.
  
  Archaeologists believe the full statue is around three meters tall.
  
  In recent years, a large quantity of red-granite statue pieces have been uncovered at Amenhotep III's funerary temple at Kom al-Hitan on Luxor's west bank.
  
  Amenhotep III ruled Egypt between 1390 and 1352 BC.
  
  He was almost certainly the grandfather of Tutankhamen, according to the results of DNA tests and computerized tomography (CT) scans on the famed boy king's mummy announced by scientists on Feb. 17.
  
  Kind regards,
  Nilgun Birgoren
  
  • 04 Oct 2010, 7:21 pm
  Dr. Nilgün Birgören wrote: > Dear friends, > > Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed part of a 3,000-year-old > statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of > the young King Tutankhamen, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said > Saturday. > > The statue was found near the northern entrance of Amenhotep III's > temple and depicts the king sitting down on a throne with Amun. > > The red-granite top half of the statue was discovered at the site of > Amenhotep III's funerary temple in the southern city of Luxor. > > The newly discovered artifact, which measures 130 cm in height and 95 > cm in width, and has many details of the facial features. > > Archaeologists believe the full statue is around three meters tall. > > In recent years, a large quantity of red-granite statue pieces have > been uncovered at Amenhotep III's funerary temple at Kom al-Hitan on > Luxor's west bank. > > Amenhotep III ruled Egypt between 1390 and 1352 BC. > > He was almost certainly the grandfather of Tutankhamen, according to > the results of DNA tests and computerized tomography (CT) scans on > the famed boy king's mummy announced by scientists on Feb. 17. > > Kind regards, > Nilgun Birgoren
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