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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jim Stinehart: [QB] Supercar: 1. Everyone agrees that the mummy in KV55 is very closely related to Tut's mummy. 2. People are well aware of the study of teeth you are referencing. 3. There are many other studies that have been done of the KV55 mummy. 4. The majority of people who have looked at all the studies have concluded that the mummy in KV55 only lived to age 20 - 26. 5. Plus, the surrounding evidence in KV55 is consistent with the mummy being Smenkhkare. 6. I agree that there is conflicting evidence here, including the study you cite. At the end of the day, based on what's out there to date, most of us see the KV55 mummy as a male who died between ages 20 - 26, in which case Smenkhkare is the only known match. Nicholas Reeves is the most prominent person who goes with your view. It may or may not be relevant that most Amarna buffs don't care too much for Nicholas Reeves. Until and unless new studies produce new hard evidence, I continue to go with the majority view on this one. 7. Why is this such an exciting issue to you? If the KV55 mummy is Akhenaten, what would that change? Certainly Akhenaten is closely related to Tut. Are you angling toward wanting to view "Smenkhkare" as being Nefertiti in drag, which is the view of Nicholas Reeves? If that's what you're driving at, then we do have hard evidence against that fantastic view. We have portrait after portrait of a young pharaoh, about age 21, who cannot stand up straight on his own two feet. Tut had 130 walking sticks in his tomb, yet Tut himself was very athletic and there was nothing wrong with his legs. Those walking sticks must have belonged to the 21-year-old male pharaoh who cannot stand up straight by himself, and who is always shown accompanied by his wife, usually in obvious fertility motifs, and with his wife often bustling around and being the active party, while he is sitting down or heavily leaning on a staff. There are no other images like that in 3,000 years of the history of ancient Egypt. It is impossible that all those portraits can be of Nefertiti in drag, or of Tut. No, those many portraits, and all those walking sticks, evidence Smenkhkare: a lame male who died at about age 23. Even if you were right that the KV55 mummy is Akhenaten (and I do not agree that the KV55 mummy is Akhenaten), that would still not make "Smenkhkare" be Nefertiti in drag. There is no way that Nefertiti would constantly be portrayed in fertility motifs with her daughter Meritaten, where Nefertiti cannot stand unaided on her/his own two feet. No way! Jim Stinehart [/QB][/QUOTE]
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