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JESÚS ARIEL AGUIRRE
THE GOLDEN MASK OF KING TUT
THE CODE
Aguirre, Jesús Ariel
The Golden Mask of King Tut The Code / Jesús Ariel Aguirre. - 1a ed. - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Autores de Argentina, 2020.
Libro digital, EPUB
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ISBN 978-987-87-1211-6
1. Narrativa Argentina. I. Título.
CDD A863
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Dedication
To my dear mother, who has always been by my side.
“The travel is in the young part of education and, in old age, part of experience”
Sir Francis Bacon
Introduction
The professor of Archeology Thomas Dee is in Berlin inside the Museum that guards the bust of the most famous Egyptian queen: Nefertiti.
His face glows unscathed, at the Neues Museum in Berlin in Germany, mesmerizing millions of visitors every year. It is currently on display in the North Dome Room of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. An insurer has valued the bust at more than 300 million euros.
Anne Lee, a journalist for CNN and a friend of Thomas, but who has not seen for years, manages to locate it inside the Museum, after looking for it in other rooms; she manages to see it along with the large number of people who visit Queen Nefertiti, such as in a Royal audience. Neferu Aton Nefertiti is the full name of this lost and exiled queen. Thomas mesmerized by the beauty of his neck, the blue tone of his headdress, and his lips that seem freshly painted.
Surprised by her unexpected appearance at the Museum, after hugging her and kissing her on the cheek, they separate from the crowd, and he asks her reason brings her to Berlin.
She tells him that she is working on a note, for the news network where she works, about the inauguration of the New Egyptian Museum, and convinces him to accompany him to Cairo.
He tells her about his latest jobs in Amarna and that his life takes place between London and Luxor, and that he would gladly accompany her. She needs someone to advise her on everything about Egyptian history, so together they fly to the city of Cairo, and from there they go to Tell Amarna, in Egypt.
Tell El Amarna
News travels fast in the vicinity of Tell El Amarna, a discovery that has puzzled Egyptian archaeologists and the international community.
For 40 years the Emeritus Professor of Egyptology Barry Kemp from the University of Cambridge (UK) has directed the Amarna Project, whose systematic research on the site.
He directed excavations and investigations at the British Mission at Tell Amarna since 1977.
Amarna is the Arabic name of a region located on the eastern bank of the Nile River, famous for being the territory where the city of Ajetaton was built in the mid-fourteenth century BC.
Pharaoh Akhenaten gave the order to build this city in the fifth year of his reign, making it the capital of all Egypt, serving as a cult to the god Aton (Represented by the solar disk). The city was located right in the middle between Memphis and Thebes, both capitals of the ancient empire at different times.
Although it was destroyed by order of the pharaohs who succeeded it, even today in ruins, it contains two royal palaces, the South Palace and the North Palace, and the temples of Aton.
It has also been possible to collect information on the disappeared city since no other city was ever built on this site again, in the city the heads of the statue of Akhenaten and another of Queen Nefertiti were discovered.
Currently known as the Amarna archaeological site, 3,300 years of history are preserved there.
This city is known as the Pompeii of Egypt, covered for 3000 years by sand, Amarna was abandoned shortly after the death of Akhenaten.
At floor level, with a brush they remove the sand until the stone of the foundations of their buildings is exposed, thus it has been possible to make a plan of the Great Temple of Aton.
One of the main tourist attractions of Amarna are 25 rock-cut tombs, and the Royal Tomb TA26 itself, which display in their decoration a detailed pictorial record of Akhenaten’s court and life in the city.
Ajetaton stretched about 12 kilometers along the Nile and five inland. North of the urban center stood the largest temple, some 750 meters long by 300 meters wide. Ajetaton was not walled. In the center stood the Great Palace, in whose rooms with colorful walls, patios and cobbled paths.
Thomas returns to the excavations and while investigating one of the ancient cartridges, he has found an object that probably belonged to the 18th Dynasty, to the very mysterious Akhenaten, son Amenophis III, and father of King Tut.
Archeology professor Thomas Dee, Archeology and Egyptology study at the University of Cambridge and a doctorate with a thesis dedicated to the archaeological site of Tell el-Amarna. I subsequently investigated Akhenaten’s royal family as a researcher at the British Academy in New Gall, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Egyptian Archeology at the Oxford University School of Archeology. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on Ancient Egypt.
Right there in the excavations found a small funeral article very similar to that found in the valley are the kings in Luxor King Tut Ankh Amon, but is and is Realize or very beautiful stone blue faience 18.5 centimeters.
Fascinated by Egyptian history, a South African journalist Anne Lein, who works for the international chain CNN, who is accredited for the inauguration of the Great Egyptian Museum, persecutes the professor wherever he walks, she wants to be the first to write about the news of such a discovery, so he joins Professor Dee in search of answers.
The professor, after carefully analyzing the object, says that the object found is probably an ushabtis, part of those that were buried with Akhenaten first in Amarna and later taken to Thebes, to the Valley of the Kings.
Anne interrupts and asks ¿what were these Ushebtis?
Thomas tells him that they are small statues of the pharaoh, small mummiform figures, usually made of wood or earthenware, which were placed in the tomb with the intention that they would act as servants of the deceased and that, in this way; he did not have to work for eternity. Ushabtis is an Egyptian term that means “those who respond”, and they were devised as part of the funeral trousseau, the idea was to replace their owners in the tasks of farming and irrigation that could be required in lalu, that is, in the kingdom of Osiris , or as we commonly know it: in the “Beyond.”
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