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anneke Queen of Egypt


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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject: Tutankhamen on National Geographic website |
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You may know this already, but there is a very interesting page on the National Geographic website dedicated to Tut:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/tut/mysteries/index.html
You need a Macromedia flashplayer and a high speed internet connection
There's a virtual tour of the tomb describing the paintings on the walls, images of all the shrines and coffins.
What I found really interesting was a "tour" of the CT scans and a list of some interesting features that came from the scans. _________________ Math and Art: http://mathematicsaroundus.blogspot.com/ |
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kennethhirst Scribe


Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 121 Location: norway
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: TUTANKHAMUN |
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regarding tuts tomb journey on the link site you gave us anneke,iwould like to mention i saw the program on bbc world the other night and took it up on vidio,the only thing wrong i found was the narater kept calling him tut which makes me cringe ,i know i have written it the same but thats to save me time on the pc,TUTANKHAMUN when spoken please,allso the narater on your link called the ankh--ank they must pronounce the H so as to bring the sound like we say anchor dont you agree  _________________ NTR NFR NB T3WY S-N-WSRT IR.N=IR.N=f N IT=f KNNTH M3`-HRW |
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Kerkira Citizen

Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Madrid, Spain
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you, Anneke. As a side thought, I consider that Kennethhirst is right: Although he was a lesser Pharaoh, calling Neb-kheperu-Re Tut-ankh-Amon “Tut” are no manners. On the other hand, if we write “Tut on the pc” to save time when all the effort it takes is a few keystrokes, imagine what we would have done if we were compelled to use a brush or, worse, a chisel. We would have written “T”, at most. This laziness while writing documents is what keeps historians scratching their heads. Best regards.
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anneke Queen of Egypt


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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Kerkira wrote: | ... imagine what we would have done if we were compelled to use a brush or, worse, a chisel. We would have written “T”, at most. |
LOL I will try hard not to refer to him as "Mr.T" then.
I refer to the King as Tut myself on occasion. I noticed that I did it in my original post I think it's a natural tendency to abbreviate long names.
Several of my relatives call me "An" instead of my longer name.
Makes one wonder what they called each other, doesn't it?
It seems that the ancient egyptians were rather fond of nicknames themselves. This leads to inscriptions like "Amenhotep called Huy" for instance. So it's not entirely unlikely that those close to him may have called him "Tut" or maybe "Teti" (another old egyptian name).
And manners or not, I'm afraid I will never start referring to him by his full name "Neb-kheperu-Re Tut-ankh-Amon".
I foresee typing injuries if I have to type that out every single time  _________________ Math and Art: http://mathematicsaroundus.blogspot.com/ |
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kennethhirst Scribe


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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject: tutankhamun |
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i fully suport and and totaly agree with you kerkira that it is only lazyness not to tast in his full name,and i certanlly dont want to be refered as K.orKH so please accept my humblest appologies(creep-creep)  _________________ NTR NFR NB T3WY S-N-WSRT IR.N=IR.N=f N IT=f KNNTH M3`-HRW |
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anneke Queen of Egypt


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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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LOL I guess I'll start referring to them as Tut, Ankhes, Akhy and Neffie from now on.
You'll have to learn to live with it kh  _________________ Math and Art: http://mathematicsaroundus.blogspot.com/ |
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Kerkira Citizen

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, dear… But, of course, I was joking. Good old Tut will surely not complain. Once I saw an ancient tombstone, from Roman times: On it, badly eroded by time, there were only a few letters, something like “H.I.P.G.XX” or similar. I wondered: “If this poor devil sought to be remembered, he sure did a fine job”. Best wishes.
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kennethhirst Scribe


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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: abreviations |
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hi aneke i seem to have it a sore point for i felt a knife sticking in my back and coming from one so gifted in egyptian history i am suprised at you but we are not going to let a little thing like that get in the way of our open discusions because i like your sense of humour kh _________________ NTR NFR NB T3WY S-N-WSRT IR.N=IR.N=f N IT=f KNNTH M3`-HRW |
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