Found in Iraq: "King Tut"

[Adsos Letter]

Source: Middle East News

Dohuk, Iraq - A Kurdish archaeological expedition announced on Thursday that it had found a small statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen in northern Iraq, a Kurdish news agency reported.

Hassan Ahmed, the director of the local antiquities authority, told the Kurdish news agency Akanews that archaeologists had found a 12-centimeter statue of the ancient Egyptian king in the valley of Dahuk, 470 kilometres north of Baghdad, near a site that locals have long called Pharaoh's Castle.

He said archaeologists from the Dahuk Antiquities Authority believe the statue dates from the mid-14th Century BC.

Ahmed said the statue of Tutankhamen showed 'the face of the ancient civilization of Kurdistan and cast light on the ancient relations between pharaonic Egypt and the state of Mitanni.'

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1459207.php/Found_in_Iraq_%26quotKing_Tut%26quot_

[aquart]

1. Someone took home a souvenir?

[csziggy]

2. There was evidence that Tut's tomb had been robbed in antiquity

Then the remaining items piled back in and the entrance resealed. The way the stuff was just sort of stuffed into one room is not believed to be how it was intended to be arranged. But the priests likely did not want to let the general public know of the robbery so the re-sealing was probably done in secret.

[Aristus]

5. Interesting. Everything I've read about Tutankhamen suggests that he was obscure,

unimportant, and not very powerful. It would be like taking home a statue of Millard Fillmore.

[Javaman]

3. Well, like the song says...

"born in babylona, moved to arizona...king tut!"

[lame54]

4. "had a condo made of stona"