News from the Valley of the Kings

Marrianne Luban reports that more pages of her former website are reappearing and might be of interest:

My impressions of two oft-discussed persons here are Queen Tiye or the EL

http://www.oocities.org/scribelist/elder.htm

and this one I can vouch less for due to it being only a skull--the KV55 individual

http://www.oocities.org/scribelist/kv55.htm

I do my portraits by using very thin paper to trace over the dimensions of the actual mummified heads or skulls [although I don't like to do anything from a mere skull] and then using ancient portraits to restore what has shriveled.

I am delighted to pass these on. So much of the news at present is heavy and it is nice to have something lighter to share.

With 83 comments (and counting!) on the  latest post about Tutankhamun DNA analysis, you might have missed a link to an article Marianne Luban wrote some time ago.  This is what Marianne had to say about it in the comment she left:

The "wayback machine" saved an old article of mine, written years ago, called "Queen Tiye and the Co-regency", which discusses what the archaeological record indicates about a possible co-regency between Akhenaten and Amenhotep III. The age-at-death of the mummy called the "Elder Lady" was an important consideration, even though at this time DNA had not confirmed her identity. For anyone interested in the possibility of a co-regency, the article is here:
http://www.oocities.org/scribelist/queentiye.htm

As Marriane says, it was written before the DNA testing which showed pretty conclusively that The Elder Lady and Queen Tiye are one and the same, but that just adds to the article.   If you haven't been following the discussion on the post about Tutankhamun DNA analysis then it really is worth reading them through as there is some excellent debate.  The comments also have more commentary from Marianne on her old article.

Marianne Luban linked Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane in one of her recent comments.  As the page says:

William J. Murnane (1945-2000) dedicated his life to the epigraphic recording and historical interpretation of the monuments of pharaonic Egypt. In tribute to his important contributions to Egyptology, a prominent group of his colleagues and students offer a range of new studies on Egyptian epigraphy and historiography. Amarna studies loom large in the volume as they did in Murnane's own work.

I've just started going through the papers and there is some great stuff linked there.  It's going to take me to read it all (and there's more in the same thread of comments that I need to read and appreciate as well).  I've started with James Allen's paper on the Amarna Succession.

If you haven't seen this collection of papers before, then I really do suggest that you take a look.  My thanks to Marianne.