Publication Date:
1978-06-09
Description:
An unidentified female mummy found in a cache of great kings and queens in 1898 in the Valley of the Kings was examined from the viewpoint of Egyptology, x-ray cephalometry, biostatistics, and biochemistry. The result was the identification of Queen Tiye, of the Eighteenth Dynasty, wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaton.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Harris, J E -- Wente, E F -- Cox, C F -- Nawaway, I E -- Kowalski, C J -- Storey, A T -- Russell, W R -- Ponitz, P V -- Walker, G F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Jun 9;200(4346):1149-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/349693" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Cephalometry
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Egypt
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Electron Probe Microanalysis
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Female
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Hair/analysis
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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Middle Aged
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*Mummies
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Skull/radiography
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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