alt.history.ancient-egypt

I have met Hawass and found him to be very honorable and easy to talk to. I
think that you did not watch the same program that I did.

SandraB

"JTEM" wrote in message
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> Seems like Hawass found someone to pay him to shit
> on Joann Fletcher....
>
> His entire basis for ruling out the "young woman" from
> KV35 was the absence of a bent arm.
>
> They affirmed many of Fletcher's other conclusions...
> that it was an 18th dynasty royal... that she was
> murdered... that she was in fact a she...
>
> Hawass had previously said it was a male, did he not?
> Yes. Yes he did.
>
> Anyway, what didn't they do?
>
> DNA testing! If the "young woman" from KV35 was in
> fact that mother of Tutankhamun -- as was speculated --
> they would have to share the same mtDNA.
>
> Technically, that wouldn't "prove" the case, I know, but
> it could rule it out as a possibility.
>
> Too bad that real science, real egyptology has to take
> a back seat to egos....
>