World History
Egyptologists unearth statue of King Tut's grandmother. CNN has this history in the news article up today.
The statue of Queen Ti is missing its legs but is otherwise well preserved. It was buried under about half a meter of rocks and sand. This is often the case with archeological finds. Sometimes luck (just as much as good site selection and careful digging) is necessary for good finds. Who knows what else is out there (in Egypt or elsewhere in the world) just under our feet?
Please note that the picture above is not Queen Ti. I just picked it from a public domain source to help with the Ancient Egyptian theme of this post.
From the site:
Egyptologists have discovered a statue of Queen Ti, wife of one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and grandmother to the boy-king Tutankhamun, at an ancient temple in Luxor, an Egyptian antiquities official said on Tuesday.
The official said the roughly 3,400 year-old statue was uniquely well preserved. Ti's husband, Amenhotep III, presided over an era which saw a renaissance in Egyptian art.
"It was a time of flourishing of art in ancient Egypt ... Behind a good man is a strong woman. And she was a very strong lady," said Sabry Abdel Aziz, head of the Pharaonic department at Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities.
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World History
Egyptologists unearth statue of King Tut's grandmother
Egyptologists unearth statue of King Tut's grandmother. CNN has this history in the news article up today.
The statue of Queen Ti is missing its legs but is otherwise well preserved. It was buried under about half a meter of rocks and sand. This is often the case with archeological finds. Sometimes luck (just as much as good site selection and careful digging) is necessary for good finds. Who knows what else is out there (in Egypt or elsewhere in the world) just under our feet?
Please note that the picture above is not Queen Ti. I just picked it from a public domain source to help with the Ancient Egyptian theme of this post.
From the site:
Egyptologists have discovered a statue of Queen Ti, wife of one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and grandmother to the boy-king Tutankhamun, at an ancient temple in Luxor, an Egyptian antiquities official said on Tuesday.
The official said the roughly 3,400 year-old statue was uniquely well preserved. Ti's husband, Amenhotep III, presided over an era which saw a renaissance in Egyptian art.
"It was a time of flourishing of art in ancient Egypt ... Behind a good man is a strong woman. And she was a very strong lady," said Sabry Abdel Aziz, head of the Pharaonic department at Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities.
- Where Did Queen Nefertiti Come From?
I found this history article at ezinearticles.com. As the site allows for the reproduction of articles by blogs and other websites, I am going to go ahead and reprint it here. The author of the article is Ashok Malhotra. Where Did Queen Nefertiti Come...
- Die Like An Egyptian A Multiple Intelligences Exploration Of Egypt
Die Like an Egyptian A Multiple Intelligences Exploration of Egypt - At this site, students complete projects about ancient Egypt that correlate with Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Thie site is authored by Gina Mannino and Donna...
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History of Egypt. This is an overview to the history of the African nation of Egypt. Mind you, Egyptian history is thousands of years old. This essay reduces it and leaves out much. It is still a good summary if you want to see the bigger picture. From...
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Dynasties I and II, The Unification of Egypt. Presents a summary of the individual rulers who helped to make Egypt a single nation in ancient times. From the site: Much of what happened during the earlier periods of Egyptian history is speculative. It...
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