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Glyphdoctor wrote:What do you do for a living, A4? Or do you have to work for a living at all?

A-Four wrote:

Brian Yare wrote:In the event that the proposed corridor or chamber contains a burial, why is Nefertiti the prime candidate? Might we even find a cache containing Akhenaten, his daughters, Smenkare, etc.? Only time will tell. But well done to Nicholas Reeves for the results so far.

Well, I am going to let you Brian, and our few loyal followers on this site into a little secret, but don't tell the usual riff raff that these days frequent the Marsam

Dear old Nick Reeves years ago, did a little work with the Japanese on WV 22. Now if you look careful at the floor plan of that tomb, you will see a similarity to that of KV 62, though the scale is much reduced in Tutankhamen's tomb. Study carefully where the sarcophagus of Amenophis III is placed. In the same part of KV62 this was walled up.

Look carefully at the two separate chambers in WV 22, and first you will notice that these were cut supposedly for Amenophis's two wives, to be interned on death, whether they were is debatable. However that is not important, what is, is the fact that Reeves is now looking at two walled up tombs on the north and western walls of KV 62 that are in the exact same positions that are relevant to those as known in WV 22.

Not a lot of people know this,........A-Four .

newcastle wrote:Tutankhamun: Great golden face mask was actually made for his mother Nefertiti.

New research by the British Egyptologist, Nicholas Reeves, has revealed that it was originally made for a female pharaoh, probably the famously beautiful ancient Egyptian queen, normally known to the public today as Nefertiti.

The evidence that Dr Reeves​ has found,​ suggesting​ that ​Tutankhamun's large​, elaborate gold death mask​ was (apart from its personalized​ facial features) made for his mother​ (or possibly step-mother), Nefertiti, has come from a detailed re-examination of an inscription on the artefact assigning it to Tutankhamun. Very careful examination of the hieroglyphic text shows that the king’s names were actually inscribed over an earlier individual’s names which appear to have given the full official nomenclature used by Nefertiti after she had become co-pharaoh of Egypt – namely Ankhkheperure-Meryt-Neferkheperure Neferneferuaten (literally meaning ‘Living Manifestation of the Sun God, Beloved of Akhenaten, Beauty of Beauties of the Disk of the Sun’).

A decade after Akhenaten and Nefertiti had launched their religious revolution, some evidence suggests that Egypt may have been hit by a terrible epidemic. Desperate to ensure the continuation of his new monotheistic religion, and perhaps fearful of death, Akhenaten decided to appoint his queen, Nefertiti, as co-ruler. He did so just in the nick of time – for within a few months he did indeed die. His young eight year old son, Tutankhamun (at that stage called Tutankhaten), became pharaoh and Nefertiti (now only using her new longer pharaonic name) continued as co-ruler with him, says a leading historian of the period, Dr Aidan Dodson of the University of Bristol, author of two major books on the era – Amarna Sunrise and Amarna Sunset.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 53156.html