Mark Morgan Wrote:
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> In this NPR Radio interview about the recent
> Hatshepsut discoveries, Hawass answers a
> listener's question regarding Queen Tiye saying
> that her mummy will be CT scanned and DNA tested
> in September as part of a larger project.

Well, assuming they took DNA from Tutankhamun when they CT scanned him in 2005, perhaps they can establish, once and for all, if the "Elder Lady" is a) in fact Tiye (not sure how they would do this: see below), and b) at all related to Tutankhamun.

The greatest assumption has been that
- since the hair in the small casket with Tiye's name cotained a hair braid, and
- since that hair was "morophologically like" the hair found on the 'Elder Lady',

ergo, the conclusion has been in many circles that "Elder Lady" = Tiye.

But, as I noted on another list, there are many caveats in assuming that simply because hair is found in a box with a certain name upon it, doesn't necessarily make it that person's hair. This has been some of the biggest caveats Egyptologists have to deal with, particularly when bodies are laid within coffins not their own, or items are placed upon bodies which do not belong to them, etc.

Sounds like another Discovery Programme in the making, though.

Wonder what happened to Dr. Hawass' relationship with National Geographic? For years any significant find made was handed over to them by Hawass and/or the SCA.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom





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