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- Comment on Notes on the Goddess Pakhet by Andrea
Test message. Please ignore. Andrea.
- Comment on Paneb – “The All Round Bad Guy” by Andie
Test. Please ignore. Andrea.
- Comment on Help researching Ankhesenamum by Khazar-khum
If you are going to study Ankhesenamun, you’ll have to grapple with the recent DNA tests. It would be interesting if someone could explain why the women from KV21 were included in the survey.
- Comment on The Granite Plugs of the Great Pyramid by Pat Mowatt
Excellent article.
I am very much an amateur in Pyramid lore, having become interested in the subject as a result of watching the National Geographic presentation of JP Houdin’s “internal ramp” construction theory. From a layman’s perspective, given the internal ...
- Comment on Help researching Ankhesenamum by Stephanie
Hi Kate,
thanks for your view on the problem. To my understanding the hardest evidence we have in this matter can be found in the bondary stelae because they are dated and their gradual development can be discerned whereas ... - Comment on Help researching Ankhesenamum by Kate
I spent quite a bit of time a couple of years ago compiling what we know of the daughters. In the case of the three youngest, precious little. Even Ankhesenamun is relatively hard to research and Meketaten probably died young. ...
- Comment on Help researching Ankhesenamum by Stephanie
The question of the princesses` ages certainly is one of great interet.I have noted that the calculations which result in early births and higher ages are often combined with theories that need those ages in order to work. Allen for ...
- Comment on Learning or want to learn hieroglyphs? by peter
hi andy
any news on the hyroglyphics course?
regards
peter - Comment on Notes on the Goddess Pakhet by Barbara
I’d like to know more about Menhit, Jane. I had to look her up. She certainly seems to be as obscure as Pakhet, sharing similar iconography. The foreign origin of some deities and the subsuming of these with Egyptian gods ...
- Comment on Tomb of the Overseer of the Treasury Maya, Saqqara, by Kate Gingell by Grant Armstrong
Great pictures. Well done!
- Comment on Notes on the Goddess Pakhet by Jane Richards
Could this female deity be the descendant of the pre historic goddess MENHIT…the female counterpart of the deity MENHUR?
The early glyphic symbols, as well as the anthropomorphic symbolism show her connected to the lioness. The information I have ... - Comment on Help researching Ankhesenamum by Kate
The question of when Meritaten was born is interesting because if Akhenaten started a family several years before taking the throne that obviously has implications for this age at death and therefore the whole question of the identification of the ...
- Comment on Help researching Ankhesenamum by Dylan Bickerstaffe
You will want to look at the De Garis Davies reproductions of the Amarna tomb scenes (which include Ankhesenpaaten), and Geoffrey Martin for the royal tomb. There is the question of Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit too, who is thought to be her ...
- Comment on Tomb of Horemheb, Saqqara, by Kate Gingell by Kate
There is quite a lot of Horemheb material to come over the next few days and weeks. Porin. I’ve a video to add at News from the Valley of the Kings of a Symposium at the Met Museum. I’m also ...
- Comment on Tomb of the Overseer of the Treasury Maya, Saqqara, by Kate Gingell by Jean
I’ve never seen the pic of Maya and Meryt before the god – it is absolutely beautiful – thanks for the link
- Comment on Tomb K64 in the Valley of the Kings – The Story as it Broke by etienne Rémy
Hello friends of egyptology!
a new video of the ouveture af the sarcophagus on the pharaon magazine site: http://pharaon-magazine.com/actualites/actualite/kv64-ouverture-du-cercueil
Best,
Etienne. - Comment on Tomb of the Overseer of the Treasury Maya, Saqqara, by Kate Gingell by Alice Gaylor
Beautiful pictures. Thanks
- Comment on Tomb of Horemheb, Saqqara, by Kate Gingell by Porin
Horemheb, the good guy after Akhenaten! Would be interesting to compere these with his tomb in the Valley, to see if there are any changes. Excellent work
- Comment on Lecture Review: Dancers, Donkeys, and Dirt: New Discoveries from the Time of the Black Pharaohs from South Asasif, Egypt by Barbara
Really interesting report Rebecca. I’ve signed up as a volunteer on the Asasif dig this summer – yikes! Expect the sand will have heated up nicely by then! Love Karakhamun’s mutt!
- Comment on Tomb of Horemheb, Saqqara, by Kate Gingell by Alice Gaylor
Just lovely. Thank you very much. Really like the courtyard.
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Hi every one on Friday attended a seminar in York given by three speakers from Egyptian Exploration society. the theme being amarna. The first speaker was Aidon Dodson who set the scene of the move from thebes to the wonderful city of Amarna . He showed photos of Aknaraten with his wife Nefertiti and their little girls. certainly a first in Egyptian art. It seemed to me to iddlic!!!! almost as though Aknaraton had a P.R man and was presenting to the people what he wanted them to see . The next speaker talked about our perception of the royal couple and how little is actually known about them.
Knew this was on the way so got another bottle of wine and am now headed for my favorite chair again. Thank you ladies. This is such a treat for this old woman.
Hi
Problem with first conference report.
gives this message.
http://www.egyptological.com/2011/09/awt-conference-2011-glass-faience-and-pottery-making-at-amarna-paul-nicholson-5685, and it doesn’t exist.
Hi. Yes, sorry about this. It was published by accident before it was completed and has been withdrawn. It will be published in the next couple of days when it is complete. We got a little carried away with the preparations for tomorrow’s edition!
Best
Andie
Outstanding job! Very proud of both of you ladies. Thank you for this and all future editions. I’m so excited, printing everything and going to curl up in my favorite chair and maybe have a glass of wine, or 2, and read, read.
I hope that you enjoy it, Alice. And the wine too! :-)
Just want to thank Andie and Kate for this wonderful site.
Ray (George)
Hello Ray. Always good to hear from you. Thanks very much for the comment.