Yes, it has been forever and yes, this is completely random BUT I have always had a total fascination with Egyptology. So tonight I was watching this special on the Queen of Egypt named Hatshepsut, who was actually a king or pharoah of Egypt taking power in 1479 BCE for over twenty years! The discovery channel special was on the "Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen", and they spent two hours using forensic evidence to correctly identify one of four mummies as the body of the missing queen. They were finally able to discover, through a CT scan of the canopic box, that a tooth within the box belonged to one of the mummies and proved it was the queen. The canopic box was unable to be opened because the resin used to seal it 3000 years ago had glued it completely shut and they were not able to open it without destroying it. It is so fascinating that they were able to use modern technology to discover the identity of a mummy that is over 3000 years old. It is also neat that they were still able to find DNA on the mummies even after all those years too. There is hope that future mysteries will be solved like this one through advancements!
So that is my rant and random tidbit of the day. I was so enthralled I had to share it!
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/lost-queen/program/program.html
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