If you could email an Egyptologist what kind of questions would you ask him or her?Would you ask them questions about people who little is known about or would you ask them questions about popular theories in Egyptology such as whether Tutankhamon was murdered?

This is a very interesting question. You know, I have never really thought of this before.

I think I would ask him his/her theories on some popular questions, i.e. Whos body is in KV 55, Who was the Biblical Pharaoh, etc., maybe what he/she things is behind Gatenbrinks second door, or something like that.

It would depend on the egyptologist. I have emailed a couple in the past as I was conducting personal research and had read something they had written that I wanted further comments on and such like. The questions, therefore, were relating to papers and articles they had already written.

Obviously, if I were to email someone such as Mark Lehner I would ask a pyramid related question, as this is his speciality area.

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i second the statement of what kind of egyptologist it would be. because there are different questions i would ove to ask to different egyptologists. it would be hard to just ask about one subject or anything like about theories or whatever.

well, I'd ask them what they thought about Nefertiti's disappearance.

I'd probably ask something about Kiya. Or maybe who they thought Meritaten-Tasherit, Ankhesenpaaten-Tasherit, Beketaten and all those people were or some other such obscure Amarna-related question.

i would like to know as much info on cleoaptra as possible im doing a reprot on her and i would like all the help i can get please email me back i have a couple of intriew questions for u to held
they are........
1.what were Cleopatras major acomplishments???
2.whats happened after her death???
3.what did she do in her life????
4.did she do anything in her life amazing??
5.how did she die??
please if u could anwser theses questions and anything else other information.it would help alot thank-u again
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i don't have a lot of time to answer them all, but Cleopatra killed herself after Mark Anthony died...she let an Asp bite her.

she married her brother, she had 2 boyfriends, she bore Caesar's boy, her 2nd boyfriend, Mark Antony, would always give Egypt goods, and Mark's brother sharing the throne got mad and exiled Mark, she was one of the few women pharoahs, she was one of the last pharoahs, and she was supposed to be very pretty, she liked to show off (thus make men do what she wanted), and she was supposed to have a big nose. That's all the rattling I can do. If I'm wrong, correct me.

Well they weren't her boyfriends. She married them in accordance with egyptian lore which allows for polygamy. They were her husbands, both of them. Caeser's succesor Octavian was not Mark Anthony's brother he was his brother in law.
You say one of the few women pharaohs which may have been the case in ancient egypt but not in Ptolemaic egypt where it was very common. A queen was the co-ruler of her brother/husband. In addition to that Cleopatra II, III and VII ruled alone for a time. The numbers after their names are confusing because there were more than 7. Let me just count. 11 that I can think of at the moment. 13 if you count Alexander the Great's sister and step-mother, I think it was.

I would ask how do we know if we are ready to be an egyptologist?