Akhenaten's New Home

Here an article on the planned museum of the Amarna period at Minya including in the plans for the museum is the return of the supposed remains of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, his mother Tiye's mummy and the mummy KV 35 younger lady who is now thanks to the recent two-year study been shown to be the sister of the supposed Akhenaten remains and also mom to Tutankhamen.

Return of the Sarcophagus

Here we see the repatriation ceremony, including Dr. Zahi Hawass, for that twenty-first dynasty coffin seized in Miami last year. The coffin may not be much to look at, but the video is interesting.

Repatriated Artifacts

Egypt's minister of culture today announced the University of London has handed back to Egyptian authorities some 25,000 artifacts, including a 200,000-year-old ax. The collection will be displayed in the new Ahmed Fakhri museum in Dakhla.

This represents the largest haul of repatriated objects to date for the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Those Tests?

With the recent release of a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) publication on the tests recently conducted on King Tutankhamen and a number of eighteenth dynasty mummies believed to be relations, many questions have been raised.

I have found that Kate over at "The Valley of the Kings" is raising some questions on the findings, which I think are very interesting, thoughtful, and well worth reading.