Wednesday, November 7, 2007

CT scans for Toronto's Mummies

Toronto's mummy Djedmaatasankh led the way more than thirty years ago

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/273888

Dignity of Display

It saddened me to see the boy king leave his sarcophagus all the effort by his ancient people to provide the king with his eternity is now broken and completely dismantled.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/where-is-the-dignity-in-the-display-of-this-corpse-1212892.html

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Dr. Hawass on Tutankhamun's Move

I almost did not bother with this one except that Dr. Hawass is the big guy on the subject , so here it is with no photographs.

The article is a bit of a linguistic nightmare.

http://guardians.net/hawass/Press%20Releases/king_tut_moved.htm