The Curse of the Pharaohs!

[sylas]

I found a lovely and inspiring story today.

Zahi Hawass is a highly distinguished professional Egyptologist.

Dina is a little girl from Los Angeles, Egyptian-American.

Dina saw Dr Hawass on TV, and wanted to meet him when she came to Egypt; and her aunt was (somehow) able to arrange to this. Dina came to Dr Hawass's office in Giza (location of the great pyramid), filled with excitement, but also with fear... because she had heard about the curse!

Dr Hawass tried to explain to her that the things she had heard about the curse were not real, but she would not be convinced. So finally, he took her right into the pyramid himself. Do yourself a favour. Read the story of what happened here: Dina and the Curse (http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/dina_and_the_curse.htm). Attached is a photo of Dina and Dr Hawass.

Cheers -- Sylas

[Augustine2004]

Thanks! May your life never be cursed.

Exists there a subject you have zero interest in?

[NeilUnreal]

Cool story. Hawass has created a treasure in this young girl that is way beyond anything Indiana Jones ever found -- she’ll never forget this experience. Some people accuse Hawass of being a publicity-seeker, but he has a real love for the ancient history of Egypt, and wants to convey that love to other people. In these days, when many of Dina’s classmates probably think space aliens built the pyramids, a little boosterism in the name of archaeology is not necessarily a bad thing.

Whenever I hear about the "curse of the Pharaohs," I'm reminded of something another archaeologist said (John Romer, IIRC). He said that the main reason for the royal burial curse was that the Pharaohs wanted their persons and possessions intact. Being squirreled away in a dark tomb was just an unpleasant side-effect of the need for protection against thieves. It would have been beyond their wildest hopes to have been told that everything could be kept in a museum, perpetually cared for and on display --revered in a sense. An archaeologist or curator is the last person in the world a dead Pharaoh would want to curse!

Nefer Seneb, Neil

[kendemyer]

The curse that occurred near the "evangelical triangle" was far more powerful! Please see: http://www.churchisraelforum.com/the_cursed_city_of_chorazin.htm

[learning]

Does anybody know about the above Egyptian guy's (Hawass) excavation of a couple of new mummies (I think in 1994) We know from watching National Geographic, that one was a royal overseer. They found another mummie, but other than knowing it was a male, they didn't have time on the show to tell us what or who he was. They were found in tombs that had not been robbed, so it was interesting to see what all should be in a tomb. I was just wondering if someone here knew. I tried to look it up, but couldn't find anything.

[bandecoot]

I found a lovely and inspiring story today.

Zahi Hawass is a highly distinguished professional Egyptologist.

Dina is a little girl from Los Angeles, Egyptian-American.

Dina saw Dr Hawass on TV, and wanted to meet him when she came to Egypt; and her aunt was (somehow) able to arrange to this. Dina came to Dr Hawass's office in Giza (location of the great pyramid), filled with excitement, but also with fear... because she had heard about the curse!

Dr Hawass tried to explain to her that the things she had heard about the curse were not real, but she would not be convinced. So finally, he took her right into the pyramid himself. Do yourself a favour. Read the story of what happened here: Dina and the Curse (http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/dina_and_the_curse.htm). Attached is a photo of Dina and Dr Hawass.

Cheers -- Sylas



Next time Dr Hawass comes to UQ I'll let you know, he comes out on a tour every so often. The free lectures are always a blast, he may be a populariser but his method funds more digs than any other time in history.


Andrew, the guy who does history at UQ.

[learning]

Next time Dr Hawass comes to UQ I'll let you know, he comes out on a tour every so often. The free lectures are always a blast, he may be a populariser but his method funds more digs than any other time in history.


Andrew, the guy who does history at UQ.

Thank you, and PM me will ya, if you find out? A kid of mine and I want to know. We have a video of a National Geographic show of him opening a tomb in Egypt, and he has such excitement about it, he's almost like a little kid. You can't fake that excitement.

On this show, the one where he and some others were opening up some new mummies, they were showing how a mummie that had been at a small time museum in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, was sold to a museum (with some other 'mummies') in the U.S. I can't remember the name of the U.S. museum, but they did some tests, and believed it to be the father or relative of King Tut. (His mummie was missing from the cave area where King Tut was found) They believed that grave robbers many years ago, sold mummies all over Europe and the British commonwealth, and this one ended up in Niagara Falls. Anyways, they are pretty sure it is King Tut's father, because of the fact that his toes were not curled (only Kings had golden toe shapes put on their toes so the mummies toes wouldn't curl) and by the age, and by the x-ray of the profile, the noses match that of King Tut and another relative. So, anyways, the happy news of this National Geographic show was that this museum actually gave this mummy back to Egypt. They showed it being presented in the U.S. and Hawas was so grateful. They showed it going back, and now it is in the museum in Egypt. Pretty cool.