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Point In Time Valley Of The Kings
1,877 wordsMedia sensationalism and media hypes are things that are painfully obvious in all of our lives. Every person of this generation can remember the hype of Y 2 K, the insanity of the 2000 Presidential Election, the exaggerated numbers associated with Hurricane Katrina, the panic of SARS and the currently claimed explosion of the avian flu across the world. Our parents remember that the only real way to protect oneself from an atomic blast is to duck and cover. The insanity even travels to foreign c...
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Valley Of The Kings Ct Scans
1,746 words... ver, less and less attention is paid to the story by the media. Very rarely does a story about developments in the case of Tutankhamun make it to mainstream media such as national newspapers more often than not, developments are relegated to periodicals such as National Geographic and academic journals. One possibility for natural death ties into the thinning bone in Tutankhamun's head. If the king developed a haematoma, the increased pressure in his arteries that pressed against the skull w...
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Death And Burial In Ancient Egypt
1,106 wordsTo every Egyptian death was seen as a desirable transformation, the passage of the true eternal life (Guide to The Valley of The Kings page 159, 1996). Death in no instance was considered a tragedy or an end but as a welcomed transition into the Afterlife. As death was of such an importance it was necessary that great care be taken for a smooth transition to immortality, this is a major reason that the Pharaohs contents of the tomb were of such importance. Egyptians emphasis on the importance of...
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Wall Had Seals Valley Of The Kings Tomb
995 wordsDuring the winter of 1906 Theodore Davis, who was excavating in the Valley of the Kings, discovered in a hidden reserve near Howard Carters future working site a blue varnished pitcher with the name of Tutankhamen imprinted on it. The following year he entered an underground chamber, more than seven yards below the ground, also in the Valley of the Kings and location to the north of Horemhebs tomb. Torrential floods had filled the room that he found with mud which had dried up and from it the di...
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Valley Of The Kings Pharaoh
1,905 wordsEgyptologists had lost interest in the site of tomb 5, which had been explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that lay only 200 ft. from King Tut? s resting place which was beyond a few rubble strewn rooms that previous excavators had used to hold their debris. Dr. Kent Weeks, an Egyptologist with the American University in Cairo, wanted to be sure the new parking facility wouldn? t destroy anything ...
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