When the restorer passed away, his son tried to sell the hair,” said Hawass. When they took the mummy of Ramses II in the eighties, to prove that he was the Pharaoh of Moses, one of the researchers stole his hair on the restoration trip in France, putting it in a safe in his house. 13031213 BC) is commonly associated with the figure who was in power during the biblical Book of Exodus, which tells the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt after years of. The only thing that proves this is the lung, which is not found inside the mummy. “It is not possible with CT scans to know whether the mummy died of drowning or not. According to Hawass, Ramses V was sick with smallpox.įrom the aforementioned, we can deduce it was evident whether CT scans prove the causes of death? Did Ramses II die of drowning, as theoreticians claim him to be the Pharaoh of Moses? The veteran Egyptian archeologist Hawass also explained that each royal mummy will be displayed with all its personal belongings, and evidence or data about the profession of the owner of the mummy, and the results of DNA tests and CT scans, which determine the cause of death. Ramesses authority to reward the innocent and punish the guilty. We are now conducting studies on 20 royal mummies,” Hawass answered when asked about the time the project started. These festivals he head gave people a religion to follow. YouTube channel JudeMaris has reconstructed the face of Ramesses II in his prime, taking into account the aforementioned characteristics and the video is presented above. "We started the project to study royal mummies in 2009, and made huge discoveries regarding the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut (Egyptian Queen of the18th Dynasty), how Ramses II died, and the family of King Tutankhamun. Discovered back in 1881, the remains revealed some facial characteristics of Ramesses II, like his aquiline (hooked) nose, strong jaw, and sparse red hair. “Whoever conducted the X-Ray of Tutankhamun’s mummy stole parts of it, and those who studied the mummy of Ramses II to prove whether or not he was the Pharaoh that lived during Moses’ era stole his hair, but the hair was restored again,” said Hawass. Hawass replied that studies over the past years have been conducted by foreigners, who unfortunately took parts of the different mummies while studying. The first question during the seminar was about the Egyptian project for studying royal mummies. Can we really know if the corpse of Ramses II belongs to the Pharaoh of Egypt?Įgyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass had reviewed this matter during his speech in a seminar held on Dec. Gomaa also stated that the scientists found seaweed inside his corpse, which indicates that this is the Pharaoh that lived during Moses’ era. I personally think that it was likely to have happened somewhere else at a later date, and attributed to Rameses the Great because it made a better story. CAIRO - : Ali Gomaa raised a state of controversy after he announced on the program he presents on Egypt’s First Channel that when the tests were carried out on the body of Ramses II, they found that he died by suffocation. And add the fact that, at the time of the Rammesides, the Jews were still the Hittites and Rameses the Great had a peace treaty with the Hittites that was never broken.
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