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Found in Iraqi Kurdistan: "King Tut"
13.2.2009
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February 13, 2009
Duhok, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — A Kurdish
archaeological expedition announced on Thursday that
it had found a small statue of the ancient Egyptian
pharaoh Tutankhamen in Kurdistan region in Iraq's
north,www.ekurd.net
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 Duhok,
470 kilometres north of Baghdad, near a site that
locals have long called Pharaoh's Castle.
He said archaeologists from the Duhok 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.'
The kingdom of Mittani occupied roughly the same
territory spanning Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran in
the 14th Century BC that many Kurds now hope will
one day form an independent Kurdistan.
'Historical information indicates familial and
political ties between Mittani and Egypt,' Ahmed
said.
'The discovery of this statue shows us that the name
of Pharaoh's Castle,www.ekurd.net
was not invented out of vacuum, but rather arose out
of historical fact,' Ahmed told Akanews. 'This calls
for strengthening archaeological research ties
between the territory of Kurdistan and the Arab
Republic of Egypt.'
Copyright, respective author or news agency, DPA
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