This is interesting —King Tut and meteorites
Wait till you see some of the bigger itemsyeah a little piece could be fashioned into something like a dagger and it's really just an anomaly when it comes to empirical evidence of whatever it is you're trying to define you find something like saw blade or nuts and bolts made out of that same stuff. ..
I'm a serious student of Tutankhamon and his father Ankhsenaten - They were the first to propose a monotheistic yet non-personified "god". They banished and demanded the destruction of many statues symbolizing humsn-gods. The symbol of their religion was the Ankh - a sun on the horizon. No person. No "being"...it was too advanced in thinking for most Egyptians at that time. Some bought in; but eventually it was too "peace=loving" and too "humane" for most of the waring Egyptians. He was first to recognize the dark-skinned "nubians" to the south as humans, to be treated as such.
As many of you know, and if you look closely at my pics, I wear an Ankh. I am agnostic; but having become an Egyptologist I favored the Ankh early in my life. I like how it just represents the sun.
So his father was "Trepanned" (google it) to "let the ghosts out of his head" -shortly after which he died. Young Tut tried to change things; he even changed the sun god name from Aten to Amon . He died, allegedly of an "accident" at age 19...but many historians suggest a "planned" accident. Soon the new city made in their honor was leveled, and most of the inscriptions of both of them destroyed - but not before Tut was buried with a lot of devotion....and buried in such a way as to hide his tomb from grave robbers. That's a reason his riches survived until recently.
"The capital city built by Ankhsenaten was completely destroyed following his death. Pharaoh Ankhsenaten imposed a single religion, based on the worship of the sun disk “Aten,” and built a new capital city, Amarna, using entirely new architectural techniques."
The Lost City of Akhenaten | CNRS News
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Sorry to burst your bubble my dear Sir, BUT, if you are such a ' serious scholar of King Tutankhamun and his father then you'd know the King Tuts' father was actually called AKHENATON, NOT Ankhsenaton.
Tuts' wife and Queen was called Ankhesenamun, she bore 3 still born children in total, 2 sons and a daughter.
The Egyptian ANKH symbol does NOT represent the Sun, that is represented by the Solar Disc usually placed between either the 2 feathers on the Queens' Crown or as a disc on the crowns of statues of Ra and Sekhmet. In all fact the ANKH symbol represent Life, both mortal and Everlasting.
King Akhenaton was NOT subjected to 'trepanation' in any way, shape or form, he presumably was poisoned by a trusted servant whilst still ruling Egypt from his palace complex in the city he ordered built called Akhetaton ( now known as Armana)or the Place where the Aton ( Sun Disc) rises in the East.
Recent scientific and medical studies show strongly that Tut died from a fracture to the femur near the knee joint caused by a blow from a war-hammer like object when he led the raid on the Mitanni Fortress and thus killed the Mitanni King and his son as well.
@Triphid I would appreciate references to your points. Scientists are always open to correction. If you read “The Egyptian” by Mika Waltari you’ll get a fictionalized yet very day-to-day study of the life back then.
@Robecology I only ever read books, etc, written by RECOGNISED Experts and Recognised Archaeologists when reading about history, especially Ancient History. In the late 90s my daughter and I were invited by both the Egyptian Government and Zahi Hawass to come to Egypt and donate, personally, a small black stone statue of Bastet ( the Cat Elemental Guardian, not a God as so ordered by the Catholic Church btw) that bore inscriptions on it stating the name and ranks carried by Imhotep, Grand Vizier to King Djoser, Designer and Architect of the Pyramids of Djoser, Much Beloved Friend of Djoser, Healer to All and Bringer of Great Medical Knowledge to the Peoples.
That statue was purchased by my paternal Great Great Grandfather in Cairo after the Battle of the Nile between the Navy of Napoleon and the British Navy under Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, it has been proven conclusively to be 100% the genuine article and now sits in a glass enclosed case in the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities in Cairo bearing a brass plaque stating that it was returned and donated by my daughter, Lorrae.
Over many years I learned to decipher, read and translate Egyptian Hieroglyphics and, as Zahi himself said, I have the uncanny ability to put my mind into the mindset of those who lived when such things were written.
I can also read and translate other ancient languages such Aramaic, Cuneiform, etc, from the Middle Eastern regions and, at present, working on Mayan, Aztec and Incan as well.
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