Your Egypt

[kamar]

John Roach
for National Geographic News
June 29, 2006

The last of eight sarcophagi from a recently discovered burial chamber in Egypt's Valley of the Kings revealed ancient garlands of flowers.

A gaggle of researchers and media had gathered for the opening of the 3,000-year-old coffin, which archaeologists had hoped would contain the famous boy king Tutankhamun's mother.

But instead the coffin contained strips of fabric and woven laurels of delicate dehydrated flowers.

"I prayed to find a mummy, but when I saw this, I said it's better—it's really beautiful," Nadia Lokma, the chief curator of Cairo's Egyptian Museum, told reporters gathered for the opening.

The flowers are likely the remains of garlands strung with gold strips that were worn by ancient Egyptian royalty (related wallpapers: treasures of Egypt).

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060629-egypt-flowers.html

[marwa-guide]

hi kamar

by the waywe have examples for this flowers which is so important cause it heleped egyptology to knew when king tut died

you know how???????

when they opened the third coffin oh him they found a necklace of leaves,flowers.berries and fruits with blue glass beads attached to sheet of papyrus still lay on the king breast.
after analysis of the growing season of the plants in the necklace show that king tutankhamun was interred between the middle of march and the end of april
so that show that he died in january,if we count the 70 days of the mummfication previously........ :D :D

[kamar]

wow Marwa, this is very interesting :wink:

I hope yopu will write about Anciet Egypt, no one here is doing this and sometimes I feel me alone to speak about :(

[marwa-guide]

really kamr?if u need more information i will tell u

just ask and i will replay

i think to open a topic for the most intersting thing in egypt

[Hoss]

Go for it Marwa...i am sure many here will like to read and contribute to a topic about Egypt 8)

[kamar]

marwa-guide wrote:

i think to open a topic for the most intersting thing in egypt
Very good Marwa :wink: You are Egyptian so will be great if you will open topics about Ancient Egypt and I'm sure much of we will write on it :wink:
Go Marwa, go :wink: