http://witola.com/culture/king-tuts-lineage-revealed/ random thoughts and ideas about this and that... Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://witola.com/culture/king-tuts-lineage-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 Kevin Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:16:05 +0000 http://witola.com/?p=1830#comment-1281 I love the history of Egypt, but in particular when studying Ancient Egypt in college, I had quite the research project on Akhenaten. Fascinating man and vision. When I traveled to Egypt for the first time and entered the Cairo Museum, I was amazed at the amount of pieces recovered detailing him and his era. Especially after his death and the eventual erasure of any memory of his city of Armarna and name. Then the San Diego History Museum had another show of his era with pieces I had never seen before. A wonderful culture indeed. I love the history of Egypt, but in particular when studying Ancient Egypt in college, I had quite the research project on Akhenaten. Fascinating man and vision. When I traveled to Egypt for the first time and entered the Cairo Museum, I was amazed at the amount of pieces recovered detailing him and his era. Especially after his death and the eventual erasure of any memory of his city of Armarna and name. Then the San Diego History Museum had another show of his era with pieces I had never seen before. A wonderful culture indeed.

]]> http://witola.com/culture/king-tuts-lineage-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-1276 Kenny Landes Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:13:02 +0000 http://witola.com/?p=1830#comment-1276 I think the most exciting thing about this is that they identified one of the mummies as Akhenaten, who the ancient Egyptians tried to erase from the records after he committed the heresy of believing in only one god, the Aten (or Sun God.) Many of his passages praising the Aten are echoed later in the Bible. So after all these thousands of years, Akhenaten is restored to immortality. Pretty cool stuff. I think the most exciting thing about this is that they identified one of the mummies as Akhenaten, who the ancient Egyptians tried to erase from the records after he committed the heresy of believing in only one god, the Aten (or Sun God.) Many of his passages praising the Aten are echoed later in the Bible. So after all these thousands of years, Akhenaten is restored to immortality. Pretty cool stuff.

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