Fred Botha

How will you recognize so many new pharaohs at the Cairo Museum? Fred Botha

How will you recognize so many new pharaohs at the Cairo Museum? What if Champollion slipped up when he deciphered hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone nearly 200 years ago? What if the five so-called official names of the pharaohs are not their names at all but their wishes and commitments instead - their five legitimate claims and credentials to be rulers? Each pharaoh's three appeals to his protectors and his two promises? What do the pharaohs say? What do the experts say? What will you say after you meet the pharaohs here in this book and at the Cairo Museum? Tutankhamun is not my name in a single word. It is three words - tut, ankh, amun - and my promise to start a new generation. What other surprises await us? At Tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis, Tomb U-j at Abydos? At KV62 in the East Valley of the Kings, Tutankhamun's tomb? All connected with the five claims and credentials of the pharaohs through patterns unnoticed and unnoted for so long? If not names but wishes, commitments, claims and credentials, how many articles and books on Early Egypt will have to be partly rewritten? Pharaohs, pyramids, palaces, tombs and treasures will all remain but many of their current meanings and interpretations might not survive. Are new days about to dawn for Early Egypt?