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What scents did the ancient Egyptians use?

Pharaoh Hatshepsut was a power-conscious woman who assumed the reins of government in ... the curator of Bonn University´s Egyptian Museum. Hatshepsut´s perfume is also presumably a demonstration of her power. "We ... the expedition brought back whole incense plants, which Hatshepsut then had planted in the vicinity of her funerary temple. ...

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Queen Hatshepsut May Have Been Killed By Her Medicine

Pharaoh Hatshepsut lived around 1450 B.C.  A tiny flash owned by the queen, a ... found a strongly carcinogenic substance.  Queen Hatshepsut may have been killed by her medicine. When Höveler-Müller ... Bonn in 2009, he wanted to examine the interior of Pharaoh Hatshepsut's flacon. Its neck had been blocked with what they assumed was dirt ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2011 - 5:28pm - 0 attachments

Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Publicity Hound Antiquities Director, Gets Sacked

... in 1999 and the discovery of the mummy of Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut almost a decade later. Take a moment to delight in the ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2011 - 8:34pm - 0 attachments

Mummy Of Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut Found

... in Tarir in Room 43 to announce the Identification of Hatshepsut's mummy . Please come to attend the event at 10:00 am. at the ... that one of the mummies in a 1903 find was that of Queen Hatshepsut, ruler from between 1503 and 1482 BC, when Egypt was at its most ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2011 - 9:05pm - 0 attachments

Queen Of Punt Syndrome

At Cairo museum, on Queen Hatshepsut’s tomb in Deir el Bahari,it shows the chief Parihou with his wife ... Sudan?) while they offer gifts to the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut (1516-1481 BC). A naval expedition to the mysterious land of Punt was undertaken in the summer of Hatshepsut’s eighth year as queen; she sent a fleet of five ships, headed by ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - May 11 2010 - 1:45pm - 1 attachment

DNA Tests To Confirm Queen Hatshepsut Mummy

... from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the ... month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root of the unidentified ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2007 - 1:05pm - 0 attachments

Recreating A 3,500 Year-Old Egyptian Perfume

... even succeed in reconstructing this scent. Pharaoh Hatshepsut was a power-conscious woman who assumed the reins of government in ... to take over but the interregnum lasted 20 years. Hatshepsut´s perfume is also presumably a demonstration of her power. "We ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2009 - 11:41am - 0 attachments

Brodie's Disease-Madelungs Fetthals-Launois Bensaude's Lipomatosis-MSL

... in Abruzzo (Italy). To the museum of Cairo, in Queen Hatshepsut's tomb in Deir el Bahari, Queen of Punt, who died nearly 34 ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 2 2008 - 9:26am - 5 attachments

The Search For Hatshepsut And The Discovery Of Her Mummy

... Channel approached me to search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, I did not really think I would be able to make a definite ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 8:45am - 0 attachments