Joann Fletcher

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Joann Fletcher (born August 30, 1966 in Barnsley , South Yorkshire , England ) is a British Egyptologist .

activity

Flechter holds a doctorate and carried out excavations in Egypt and Yemen and examined, among other things, mummies in various museum collections around the world. She is an honorary researcher in the “Department of Archeology at the University of York” and an advisory Egyptologist for the Harrogate Museum of Art .

The mummy of Queen Nefertiti

In 2003 Joann Flechter took part in an expedition in the Valley of the Kings . Both the expedition and the subsequent documentation of their work in the tomb of Amenhotep II , KV35 , were funded by the Discovery Channel .

The expedition examined the three mummies (CG 61070, CG 61071 and CG 61072) that remained in a side room of KV35 , which had been discovered by Victor Loret in 1898 along with five other mummies. Due to the shaved skull, the arm position, the double pierced earlobes of the mummy and a wig found on site, she interpreted Mummy CG 61072 as that of Queen Nefertiti . She considered this to be evidence that could be assigned as fads to Akhenaten's reign . However, no evidence was found in this room itself to confirm their suspicions. The publication of their conjecture was viewed with skepticism by experts around the world and the identity of the mummy as that of Nefertiti was clearly refuted. The main reason was the male sex of the mummy, later determined by Zahi Hawass . The 2010 aDNA test confirmed the female gender. It is a 25 to 35 year old woman.

Since Joann Fletcher had not complied with the requirements of the Egyptian Antiquities Administration, the then General Secretary, Zahi Hawass, imposed a work ban in Egypt.

She published the results of her work in KV35 in The Search for Nefertiti .

Publications

English:

  • Joann Fletcher: Ancient Egypt: Life, Myth, and Art. Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1999.
  • Joann Fletcher: Oils and Perfumes of Ancient Egypt. Harry N Abrams, 1999.
  • Joann Fletcher and J. Fletcher: Chronicle of a Pharaoh: The Intimate Life of Amenhotep III. Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Joann Fletcher and Bridget McDermott: Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs: How to Read the Secret Language of the Pharaohs. Chronicle Books, 2001.
  • Joann Fletcher: The Egyptian Book of Living and Dying: The Illustrated Guide to Ancient Egyptian Wisdom. Duncan Baird Publishers, 2002.
  • Alan Fildes and Joann Fletcher: Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods. J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, 2002.
  • Delia Pemberton and Joann Fletcher: Treasures of the Pharaohs: The Glories of Ancient Egypt. Duncan Baird Publishers, 2004.
  • Joann Fletcher and John Malam: Mummies (Kingfisher Knowledge). Kingfisher Books, 2003.
  • Joann Fletcher: The Search for Nefetiti. Hodder & Stoughton, 2004, ISBN 0-340-83304-1 .

German edition:

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ A new investigation in 2007 by the Supreme Council of Antiquities , at the time headed by Zahi Hawass, revealed a female gender of this mummy, which is probably Kija .
  2. ↑ Carsten Pusch, Albert Zink, Zahi Hawass et al .: Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's family. In: Journal of the American Medical Association . (JAMA) Vol. 303, Iss. 7, February 2010, pp. 638-647.
personal data
SURNAME Fletcher, Joann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnsley , South Yorkshire , England