Egyptologists think they have identified with certainty the mummy of
Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, found in a
humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings, an archaeologist said on
Monday.
Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, will hold a news conference
in Cairo on Wednesday. The Discovery Channel said he would announce what
it called the most important find in the Valley of the Kings since the
discovery of King Tutankhamun.
The archaeologist, who asked not to be named, said the candidate for
identification as the mummy of Hatshepsut was one of two females found
in 1903 in a small tomb believed to be that of Hatshepsut's wet-nurse,
Sitre In...
Egyptologists think they have Hatshepsut's mummy,
Jonathan Wright, Reuters, UK, June 25, 2007.
cf. Has the mummy of ancient Egypt's best-known queen been
identified at last?,
Jonathan Wright, Reuters via The Scotsman, UK, June 26, 2007.
cf. Egyptologists think they have Hatshepsut's mummy,
Jonathan Wright, Reuters via China Daily, China, June 26, 2007.
Discovery Channel: Mummy of Hatshepsut
identified
According to US-based Discovery Channel, Egypt's antiquities supremo
Zahi Hawass will announce at a media conference in Cairo on Wednesday
"the most important find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since the
discovery of Tutankhamun" in 1922.
Hawass last year revealed at a lecture in the Metropolitan Museum of
Arts in New York that the true mummy of Hatshepsut was discovered on the
third floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo lying among thousands of
other artefacts.
Discovery Channel, which is to air a documentary about the find, said
Hawass had now confirmed the identity of Hatshepsut through
sophisticated DNA analysis.
It added that forensic scientists had used latest cutting-edge
CT-scans to produce detailed 3D images of the mummy...
Mummy of Hatshepsut identified: TV channel,
Discovery Channel, AFP via Yahoo! News, USA, June 26, 2007.
UPDATE: Thanks to
Nicole Hansen for this one.
Mummy of Hatshepsut 'identified'
A broken tooth was the latest clue that led archaeologists to explore the possibility that they had indeed found Hatshepsut...
According to the channel, a box that contained the tooth was inscribed with the female Pharaoh's name and a scan of the box found that the tooth "matched within a fraction of a millimetre the space of the missing molar in the mouth of the mummy..."
Mummy of Hatshepsut 'identified',
Alain Navarro, AFP via Middle East Times, Cyprus, June 26, 2007.
Previously:
Hatshepsut's mummy found,
March 28, 2006.
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