You may remember Joann Fletcher as the unlucky
Egyptologists who somehow triggered the famous
Hawass, king of Egyptian antiquities, angering him
so much that he honestly made a goddamn fool of
himself.
What happened was that she made a rather
uncontroversial identification of a mummy as
Nefertiti. Now, granted it wasn't the most popular
theory, and I know that I certainly had no use for it,
but it's important to remember that it was hardly
unique.
SHE WASN'T THE ORIGINATOR!
She wasn't the first much less the only person to
come to the same conclusion.
Anyhow, so Hawass went BALLISTIC! He broke his
own rule on DNA testing, just to prove her wrong,
literally doing it out of malice. AND he came out with
some genuinely kooky counter theories which, by
comparison, made Joan Fletcher's ideas seem mundane.
I believe he even banned her at the time!
Anyhow, she's back! Or, she has been back for some
time now, the King Slayer, and she has an entire series
on Egyptian history currently available FREE on Youtube.
Catch it while you can, because you know it's all going to
end up behind a paywall eventually...
And, for Christ's sake, DON'T PICK A FIGHT WITH HER!
The women is a survivor...
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