What is the name of the Egyptian Archaeologist who discovered Ken-Amun's Tomb?
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Ken-Amun Ken-Amun was overseer of the royal records during the 19th Dynasty of ancient Egypt. He was married to a woman named Isis who was a singer of the god Atum. His tomb, discovered by Zahi Hawass in 2010 was found in Tell el-Maskhuta, near Ismailia, 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of Cairo. It was the first ever Ramesside Period tomb uncovered in Lower Egypt.
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Zahi Hawass Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس‎ ‎ ; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley.
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William F. Albright William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.
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Bakenkhonsu Bakenkhonsu (“Servant of Khonsu”) was a High Priest of Amun in ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II. Information about his life was found on the back of his statue (which is now located in Munich). The information on the statue provides details about the education of young Egyptian noblemen at that time and the career of priests.
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Tentamun (21st dynasty) Tentamun "(“she of Amun”)" was an ancient Egyptian queen. She is likely to have been the daughter of Ramesses XI, last ruler of the 20th Dynasty. Her mother may have been another Tentamun, who was the mother of Ramesses's other daughter, Duathathor-Henttawy.
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Nehmes Bastet Nehmes Bastet was a temple singer in Ancient Egypt. She lived during Egypt's 22nd Dynasty (approximately 945 – 712 BC) according to an inscription in the tomb (KV64) discovered in the Valley of Kings in 2012. Her tomb was unearthed by a team from University of Basel in Switzerland by chance. Nehmes was the daughter of the high priest of Amun. The upper edge of the tomb was found on 25 January 2011.
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Kenneth Murray (archaeologist) Kenneth C. Murray (1903 – 21 April 1972) was an English archaeologist and teacher.
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Jacques de Morgan Jean-Jacques de Morgan (3 June 1857, Huisseau-sur-Cosson, Loir-et-Cher – 14 June 1924) was a French mining engineer, geologist, and archaeologist. He was the director of antiquities in Egypt during the 19th century, and excavated in Memphis and Dashur, providing many drawings of many Egyptian pyramids. He also worked at Stonehenge, and Persepolis, and many other sites.
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Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Petrie. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings.
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TT33 (tomb) The Theban Tomb TT33 is an ancient Egyptian tomb. Located in El-Assasif, it is part of the Theban Necropolis on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor. The tomb is the burial place of the Ancient Egyptian Pediamenopet, who was Prophet and Chief Lector Priest during the 26th Dynasty.
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J. W. B. Barns John Wintour Baldwin Barns (12 May 1912 – 23 February 1974) was a British Egyptologist, papyrologist, Anglican priest, and academic. From 1965 to 1974, he was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.
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TT14 The Theban Tomb TT14 is located in Dra' Abu el-Naga'. It forms part of the Theban Necropolis, situated on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor. The tomb is the burial place of the Ancient Egyptian Huy, who was a wab-priest of Amenhotep, the favorite of Amun".
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James Burton (Egyptologist) James Burton (22 September 1786 – 22 February 1862) (formerly James Haliburton and latterly James Haliburton) was an early British Egyptologist, known for his pioneering exploration and mapping of the Valley of the Kings, during which he became the first individual of the modern age to enter KV5, his pioneering excavations at Karnak, during which he discovered of the Karnak king list, and his excavations at Medinet Habu, during which he was part of the team that discovered TT391.
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Dan Bahat Dan Bahat (Hebrew: דן בהט‎ ‎ , born 1938) is an Israeli archaeologist especially known for his excavations in Jerusalem , particularly at the western wall tunnels.
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Hornedjitef Hornedjitef was an Ancient Egyptian priest in the Temple of Amun at Karnak during the reign of Ptolemy III (246-222 BC). He is known from his elaborate coffins, mummy mask and mummy, dating from the Early Ptolemaic Period (around 220 BC) and excavated from Asasif, Thebes, Egypt, which are all held in the British Museum. These related objects were chosen as the first of the hundred objects selected by British Museum Director Neil MacGregor in the 2010 BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects".
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Mentuemhat Mentuemhat (c. 700 BCE – c. 650 BCE) was a Theban official from ancient Egypt who lived during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt. He was the Fourth Priest of Amun in Thebes.
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TT41 The Theban Tomb TT41 is located in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor. It is the burial place of the Ancient Egyptian Amenemopet called Ipy, whose title was "Chief Steward of Amun in the Southern City". He dates to the time of Ramesses I, Sethi I and Ramesses II from the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt
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Taw Sein Ko Taw Sein Ko (Burmese: တော်စိန်ကို ; ; 7 December 1864 – 29 May 1930) was Burma's first recorded archaeologist. He was born in Moulmein (present-day Mawlamyine) in 1864. He was the son of a Burmese Chinese father with ancestry from Amoy, China, Taw Sein Sun (杜成孫) and Daw Nu (ဒေါ်နု ), a Shan princess. Taw's father was a merchant in Bhamo, while his wife was the daughter of Tan Htun (who died in October 1910), a merchant in Rangoon.
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Mastaba of Hesy-Re The Mastaba of Hesy-re is an Ancient Egyptian tomb complex in the great necropolis of Saqqara in Egypt. It is the final resting place of the high official Hesy-re, who served in office during the Third Dynasty under King Djoser (Netjerikhet). His large mastaba is renowned for its well-preserved wall paintings and relief panels made from imported Lebanese cedar, which are today considered masterpieces of Old Kingdom wood carving. The mastaba itself is the earliest example of a painted tomb from the Old Kingdom and the only known example from the Third Dynasty. The tomb was excavated by the Egyptologists Auguste Mariette and James Edward Quibell.
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Luxor statue cache The Luxor statue cache (also known as the Dush Treasure) is a grouping of Ancient Egyptian statues unearthed in 1989. They were discovered in Luxor, beneath the solar court of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
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Richard H. Wilkinson Richard H. Wilkinson (born 1951) is an archaeologist in the field of Egyptology. He is Regents Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and founding director of the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition. He has conducted research and excavation in Egypt for the past 25 years, mainly in the Valley of the Kings, and most recently excavating the royal temple of Twosret, a queen of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt who ruled Egypt as a king.
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Arthur Evans Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FREng ( ; 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was an English archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Evans continued Heinrich Schliemann's concept of a Mycenaean civilization, but found that he needed to distinguish another civilization, the Minoan, from the structures and artifacts found there and throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Evans was also the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing.