Zahi Hawass Lecture on New Tutankhamun Revelations in U.S.
By STAN PARCHIN
February 19, 2010
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| Dr. Zahi Hawass stands over Pharaoh Tutankhamun's mummy in the ruler's tomb in the Valley of the Kings while monitoring the body's CT scan. Photograph courtesy of Zahi Hawass and University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. |
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Deputy Minister of Culture, will deliver the lecture Mysteries of Tutankhamun Revealed on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 7:30 P.M. at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. Based upon "Ancestry and Pathology of King Tut's Family" published in the February 17, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Hawass' presentation will change the interpretation of several objects in the traveling special exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. Tickets are $15 each at www.ticketmaster.com. The lecture will be followed by a book signing.
Dr. Hawass will speak about the cause of death and familial lineage of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1322 B.C.). He will address the boy-king's health issues as they relate to three works in the exhibition: Staff Bearing the Figure of a King, Child's Chair with Footrest and Folding Stool in a Fixed Position.
The presentation will also explain the presence of the two mummified fetuses of Tutankhamun's stillborn daughters in the pharaoh's tomb. In light of the fact that the ruler and his predecessors did not suffer from any medical conditions that would have caused their feminized appearances, Dr. Hawass will shed light on the androgynous depiction of pharaohs from the Amarna period. The lecture concludes with the identification of several mummies as members of Tutankhamun's family, namely Queen Tiye, his grandmother, Pharaoh Akhenaten, his father and a still unknown body now known to have been Akhenaten's sister and Tutankhamun's mother.
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