However, through historical and scientific research, many of the ideas conveyed by the tomb were proven to be false. This has led to many misconceptions about the life and death of Tutankhamun. The tomb provides a story on Tut, a story that may not be entirely true. History has uncovered the truth, and determined that the tale being told by King Tut’s tomb is merely how he wanted to be perceived. It is the legacy that lives on after his death.
Nevertheless, this is not the most mysterious fact of Hatshepsut’s biography. What is more striking is that there is little evidence of her existence. Obviously, her relationship with Thutmose III was not quite peaceful, for when he became a king, he chiseled her images off the temples’ walls and monuments. When a distinguished archeologist Howard Carter found one of her tombs in 1903, her body was not there. The mystery had almost been solved in 2005 by Zahi Hawaas and his team who took a closer look at a mummy found a century ago which was named KV6oa.
In fact, in Oedipus the King, the story of Adam and Eve, Beowulf, The Death of Arthur, and Othello we see that these three stages are somewhat followed according to Freud, but also differ in many ways. When first reading Oedipus the King, I thought that the father figure was Oedipus’ biological father King Laius and he was in conflict with him because of the attraction to his mother, King Laius’ wife, Queen Jocasta as in accordance with Freud’s three stages of the oedipal pattern. But in further review I realized that if the oedipal pattern was present in accordance to Freud’s theory then Oedipus’ adopted parents, Polybus and Merope, would have been the victims as they were the “parent figures” in his life. Freud states that, “in the Oedipus complex the libido was see n to be attached to the image of the parental figures” (28), but this was not the case with Oedipus. In retrospect, I realized that the father figure was in fact the Sphinx, as she had the object of desire which was access to the city of Thebes, the place where Oedipus decided to go to escape his fate.
Although fragmentary, they do state the king’s influence on Egypt’s neighbors. The scribe Djehuty details a campaign into Nubia, stating he “saw her majesty collecting booty among the dead” out on the battlefield. Although this is partially an exaggeration, it does account for a notorious campaign. Furthermore, the chief official Tiy records she “conquered the lands as her father had done”. The stelae of Enebi also reveals Hatshepsut “had dominion over the Nubians”.
This is evident when Bulwer Lytton, author of ‘The last days of Pompeii’ had removed a skull he had discovered from Pompeii as a souvenir. Discussion between the display of bodies in Pompeii and Herculaneum has also increased due to the salting of certain sites within both Pompeii and Herculaneum. In 1768 a tableaux had been created from the remains of Pompeii aiming to fool an Austrian Emperor into believing in an apparent discovery made by archaeologists at the time. This is also seen in more recent displays such as in the House of Menander where Amedeo Maiuri between the years of 1920-1930 had constructed imaginative scenarios by salting the scene with evidence. However Estelle Lazer then rectifies this when she studies remains found within the area and discovers that the bones placed within the scene do not belong together.
TUTANKHAMUN’S TOMB SOURCE ANALYSIS 1.Identify the photo below? Valley of the Kings 2.List 3 things you know about this place? Tombs were buried here for pharaohs and powerful nobles, Contains around 63 tombs, the tomb of the famous Boy King was found here. 3. What did Howard Carter mean by ‘doubts born of previous disappointments, persisted in creeping in?
The adventure began in 1970 when a British journalist teamed up with Acar to determine if one of the best museums in the world had in fact, knowingly purchased looted antiquities. The alleged theft took place in a region in southwestern Turkey called Usak. The looters took “363 objects, including gold and silver vessels and jewelry, a pair of marble sphinxes, and some pieces of wall painting”. Once the Turkish authorities had determined the objects as illicit, they filled a lawsuit in Manhattan. After being humiliated by nationwide and worldwide newspapers, in September 1993, the Metropolitan Museum of Art issued an apology and sent back the Lydian treasures to Turkey.
The people who dies after they enter the tomb wasn’t from the curse it was from natural causes. The second theory, states that because the tomb was hundreds of years old, and because the dead in those days were buried with an assortment of food, numerous potentially toxic molds and bacteria were present in the tomb. When disturbed, the theory goes; these different toxins can cause numerous complications, especially if inhaled in large quantities (Handwerk, 2005). Two of these toxins, Aspergillus niger rand Aspergillus flavus, the theory adds, can be very harmful to people whose immune systems are not strong enough to withstand the
Neanderthal art and Cognitive Abilities Long thought to be brutish and unintelligent, even stupid, new evidence is surfacing that shows Neanderthals may have been more capable than we give them credit for. They may have had a true culture, something scientists have long dismissed as being impossible. Art, makeup, jewelry, even musical instruments have been discovered recently that point to Neanderthal civilization and show that our ancient companions may have had their own forms of art long before meeting up with early humans. Little has been found as yet, but what has been discovered is evidence that was created long before Neanderthals and humans began to inhabit the same areas. They coexisted for approximately 10,000 years, but
As he describes the makings and structural integrities of the so called ‘Lanzon’, he makes a remark stating how strange the stone markings seem. He goes on to state that he believes that this ‘strangeness’ is somewhat of an effect that was desired by the original makers of the markings. I found it very interesting to learn that long after their archaeological discovery, that people are still left guessing as to what is actually means to this day. Another excerpt from the reading that possibly intrigued me the most was when Bell brings up the topic of individual likenesses in ancient portraiture. It is said that there were ten heads (and seven more at later Olmec sites) at the findings of San Lorenzo.