"Ramses II’s Long-Lost Sarcophagus Has Finally" Topic

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"Ramses II, a pharaoh who ruled in the 13th century B.C.E., is one of ancient Egypt's best-known rulers. The 19th-Dynasty king expanded Egypt's territory into modern-day Syria, fathered some 100 children and boasted one of the civilization's most ornate coffins. But the carved granite sarcophagus built to house that coffin has never been identified—until now.

Frédéric Payraudeau, an Egyptologist at France's Sorbonne University, recently re-examined a sarcophagus fragment found in the ancient necropolis of Abydos in 2009. At the time, experts posited that the engraved stone box had held the remains of two different people at different times, per a statement from the French National Center for Scientific Research. The second occupant was Menkheperre, a high priest who lived around 1000 B.C.E. But the first proved to be more difficult to pin down: Archaeologists only knew that they were a very high-ranking figure from the Egyptian New Kingdom, reports Live Science's Jennifer Nalewicki…"

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Armand

By coincidence I am currently re-reading The Complete Valley of the Kings by Reeves & Wilkinson.

Very neat find. Thanks!

A votre service mes amis…

Armand

A bit late but I've just noticed that there is a TV series about Ramses on the Sky History Channel tonight (15th March) at 6pm, and repeated at 7pm on the hour later History channel.