29 Dec 2017 Amarna Era Chronological Conundrum: Accession of Neferneferuaten and Tutankhamun’s Death–Part II By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 With only an Amarna wine jar label from Regnal Year 17 – purported to be the last dated inscription from his reign – that makes no mention of Akhenaten by name, and the generous 59 years’ rule bequeathed to Horemheb by the appreciative... Read More
27 Dec 2017 Amarna Era Chronological Conundrum: Dating Akhenaten’s Death and the Length of Horemheb’s Reign–Part I By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 When the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Menmaatre Seti I drew up the famed King List at his mortuary temple in the holy city of Abydos, he was confident that he had struck the final nail in the coffin of one of Egypt’s most turbulent periods—the... Read More
08 Dec 2017 Burned Bones, Mysterious Timber Circles & the Rites of the Ancients - Adena Culture in Mason County By Jason Jarrell Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure 0 Mason County, West Virginia is a place rich in history. Founded in 1804, the county is named after George Mason, who was a delegate at the American Constitutional Convention of 1787. In October of 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis successfully lead the... Read More
04 Dec 2017 Game of Toes in Amarna: Missing Body Parts and Funerary Practices of King and Commoner By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 Pharaoh Akhenaten was the subject of great controversy when he lived; and this did not cease after he died. If anything, his memory has both troubled and impressed people down to this day. Be it his religious revolution, death and burial – or his... Read More
10 Nov 2017 Butehamun, Opener of the Gates to the Underworld: Dismantling Sacred Places of the Dead By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 At the very end of the Twentieth Dynasty and through to the beginning of the early Twenty-First Dynasty, one after another, the many royal dead in the Valley of the Kings were divested of their funerary paraphernalia. What was once considered... Read More