The Mummies of Lahun

This is a nice video on the recent find of mummies near the Lahun pyramid.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8019872.stm

Looking Eternally Good

Here are two more particularly beautiful pictures of undisturbed mummies recently found at the Lahun pyramid.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE53P1DT20090426

Digital Karnak

Here is a site created by the University of California. The animations of the various stages of the building of the temples at Karnak are excellent.

http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/experience/IntroductionToTheTempleOfKarnak

A Dismantled Mausoleum

I am one of those who believe there is no burial to be found for Cleopatra VII, Mark Antony, and, more than likely, Caesarion, whose mummies would have potentially been used by Octavian's enemies, including the Egyptian population, as objects of veneration to destabilize Octavian's hold on Egypt.

It may have been more politically sound to have cremated all three and to have thrown their ashes into the Mediterranean.

The article has a number of fine pictures.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/19/egypt.cleopatra.mystery/index.html