Caroline Wilkinson, a scientist at Manchester University specializing in craniometrics. He concluded that the skull belonged to Amun-her-khepeshef, the firstborn son of Rameses II (also called Rameses the Great). Weeks observed that the shape of the skull matched those he had seen on other pharaohs. In one of the tomb’s many chambers, he found a broken inscription with the words “Amun-her.” A few days later, he found a skull in the chamber. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, the program focuses on the work of Kent Weeks, an American archaeologist who in 1995 rediscovered KV5, the largest of the “lost tombs” in the Valley of the Kings (near Thebes). The Discovery Channel documentary entitled Rameses: Wrath of God or Man? challenges the historical accuracy of the biblical account of the plagues that led up to the Exodus.
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