I don’t normally pass on entries from the Entertainment pages, but for Tori Amos, I make exceptions. Apparently she is quite into Egyptology, or is at least going through an Egyptian phase.
According to a September 4, 2009, interview by Ruth Gillbe for The Independent, Amos recently caught the Tut Exhibition in San Francisco. She certainly has the reading list for it.
“I’ve been reading In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun’s Tomb by Daniel Myerson, and Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs by Zahi Hawass,” she said.
Tori Amos is playing at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, September 10th and 11th.
Kate Phizackerley of News from the Valley of the Kings has raised a few questions of her own regarding DNA Testing Limitations. It is the most accessible treatment of the subject that I have seen so far, and if you really want to have a thorough understanding of this very interesting story as it unfolds, you owe it to yourself to give it a read.
Tags: Eighteenth Dynasty, Forensic Mummy Studies, Genetic Mapping
Care for a peek inside the mysteries of mumification?
Swiss mummy makers have sent a human leg into the afterlife, but it hasn’t exactly gone like clockwork. Plus, will their analysis of the degrading effects of mummi-fication on DNA prove more bitter than sweet for the genetic mapping of Tutankhamun’s family?
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Tags: Forensic Mummy Studies, Genetic Mapping, Mummies, Mummification, Swiss Mummy Project, Tutankhamun
If I were a stockbroker and Nefertiti was a commodity, I would be advising my clients to buy. Dr. Zahi Hawass’ last year with the Supreme Council of Antiquities promises to be an interesting one, with robots crawling the Great Pyramid, mummies in CT scanners, and rumors of KV64.
But somehow Nefertiti seems to keep slipping back into the story.
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Tags: Altes Museum, Ankhesenamun, Bust of Nefertiti, Eighteenth Dynasty, Forensic Mummy Studies, Internal Ramp, Jean-Pierre Houdin, Khufu's Pyramid, KV64, Mummies, Mutnodjmet, Nefertiti, New Kingdom, Repatriation, Secret Doors, Supreme Council of Antiquities, The Great Pyramid, Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass
