The mother of Tutankamon

Who was the woman who looked after the boy-king, one of the best-known pharaohs of Egyptian history? The archaeological remains found in a tomb in Egypt show that represents a woman playing with the pharaoh in his knees.

The name appears Nebkepreuré inscribed on the tombstone, along with the phrase "real mother, who breastfed the body god (Pharaoh) and has been favored by the king. "
Tutankhamun reigned at the age of nine years, from 1333 to 1323 a. D. C The mystery continues on her figure. Nothing is known about who was his mother or his father, who could be se cree Amenofis IV, known as Akhenathon, but no full certainty.

Archaeological Find a woman pharaoh

In the excavations at a temple dedicated to the goddess Mui-another of the names of Isis, located in the monumental complex of Luxor, the former Leben, 726 kilometres south of Cairo, a team of archaeologists led by Bryan Betsi , Of the Johns Hopkins University, in Ballimore. U.S. has carried out an unexpected finding: the statue of a queen of the XVIII Pharaonic dynasty (1554 to 1304 BC).

The image, according to Bryan, is 3,400 years old and representing Queen Tiye, wife of Amenholep III, ninth pharaoh of this dynasty and mother of Akhenaten.

The sculpture, a figure carved in black granite at actual size, has a height of 1.60 meters and 44 centimeters wide.

Le missing feet and one arm, and appears with a crown that presents a series of inscriptions carved in hieroglyphics alphabet, which can read the name of her husband.

On his face takes three cobras, symbols of resurrection and new life, and a hawk, representing the god Horus. On his back jeroglíficas there are inscriptions that have not yet been decrypted.

The curious design of the statue, unknown until now, is what makes the discovery is extraordinary.

The various funeral rites

Many end their existence buried, or cremated embalsamados, with tears, a party or their ashes scattered in space. The funeral customs reflect our interpretation of life and death. Here, we offer the different rites of this area.

Man is the only creature that buries its dead, and in all societies have existed beliefs about souls, spirits and life after death, so the rites farewell present very different forms throughout the world and across all times.

Funeral rites can be grouped into two classes, according to the sense that each community gives to death. On the one hand, there are companies who believe that the body loses an essential part of the person, for another, convinced that the soul is earlier than our life in this world and survives bodily death.

In the first, to be mummified corpses and filled the graves of personal belongings, food and offerings to anticipate the resurrection in the future and help the soul on its journey to another life: Jews, Vikings, Jews, Arabs, Christians and However, Egyptians did it. Those who believe in reincarnation of the soul, as Hindus and Buddhists, preferring other approaches, such as cremation.

The first known tombs dating from the Stone Age, around the year 3000 BC. In them, the corpses are lying to one side and shrinkage, and along with them there is food, tools and ornaments. As far back as ancient Mesopotamia is believed that those who were buried could cause bad misfortune. The Cretans registered addresses for another life in the graves of their dead, and Greeks and Romans provided them with money to the gods and even cakes for cancerbero, the watchdog of the gates of beyond.

But those who carried farther worship funeral were Egyptians. At the time of the pharaohs, keep the body was thought necessary to access another life, and for this purpose and noble kings did preserve his remains and equipment luxuriously their graves waiting for the day of his resurrection. Once dead, their viscera were kept in so-called "glasses CANopen" (equivalent to the relics of saints among Christians and Arabs), embalming the rest with special compounds, some funerals are held dances that could include mortuary and athletic competitions, is deposited the bodies in developed niches and wooden and stone sarcophagi, and pyramids were built luxuriously ornadas and inaccessible to the living to accommodate them.