If you already thought October was going to be exciting for Egyptology, then dig this! Dr. Zahi Hawass says that new work in the search for the tombs of Cleopatra and Mark Antony will begin this October.
The search for the famous queen of the Ptolemaic Dynasty has been tightening around Alexandria in recent years, and this year’s dig season could bring us even closer. Also, Dr. Hawass confirms an item from our October checklist!
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Tags: Alexandria, Bust of Nefertiti, Cleopatra VII, Mark Antony, Ptolemaic Dynasty, Repatriation, Zahi Hawass
For obvious reasons, the primary source for what is going on in Egyptology is the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and the voice of the SCA is Dr. Zahi Hawass. Some exciting things have been promised (or at least dangled before us!) for the 2009/10 excavation season, but not everything on the radar is being dug out of the ground. There are mummy forensic studies, DNA tests, and the repatriation of artifacts, all of which play a role in Egyptology.
Dra Abu el-Naga is a sort of suburb, if you will, of the Valley of the Kings where some tombs belonging to Seventeenth Dynasty royalty (such as Queen Ahhotep I, to the left) have been discovered, along with the tombs of Theban priests and officials.
Dr. David O’Connor is the Co-Director of the Yale University-University of Pennsylvania-Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Excavations at Abydos, which just had their group symposium at Penn Museum on September 19, 2009.
For weeks now you have been reading here at Em Hotep! about the genetic testing done on two fetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter in 1922, and the implications this may have for the genetic mapping of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to check out the Tut exhibition at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum along with my wife, 
Well, Zahi Hawass in the Valley of the Kings: Part 2 has been posted. This time we are looking at some of the artifacts his team has recovered from the current excavations in the Central Valley area.
Dr. Zahi Hawass has a new video clip regarding the work underway in the Valley of the Kings and the Quest for KV64. What’s new? Well, there is some amazing photography from Sandro Vannini, as if there is any other kind of photography from Mr. Vannini. Dr. Hawass provides a quick review, and talks about the ancient waterworks designed to catch the “tears of the gods.”
The bad new is, her remains still are.
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It has been nearly a month now since Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced that in one month he would reveal “the exact reason why King Tut died.” 
