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- More Re Discovery Of Tomb Of Queen Behenu
Reuters The well-known necropolis of Saqqara, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo, served the nearby city of Memphis and was scoured in ancient times by thieves. The 5th Dynasty is generally understood to have lasted from 2465 to 2323 BC, while the 6th Dynasty...
- Second Dynasty Tomb Found At Lahun
Reuters Archaeologists have found a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb near Egypt's mud brick Lahun pyramid, in a sign that the site held religious significance a millennium before previously thought, the site head said Tuesday. The find, down crumbling...
- Teti And Sesheshet
haaretz.com (Ran Shapira) The Egyptian researchers who, in early January, entered the burial room in the latest pyramid to be discovered in Saqqara, south of Cairo, labored for five hours before they could lift the lid of the sarcophagus within. Inside...
- Egypt Discovers 2,600 Year-old Mummy At Saqqara Burial Site
Google / Associated Press Inside the chamber, 22 mummies lay covered only by sand in four niches dug into the chamber's walls. Most were badly decomposed, showing only skulls and parts of skeletons, with decayed mummy wrappings. The sarcophagi were...
- More Re Sesheshet
El Pais (Jacinto Anton) This repeats much of what went before, but also makes the point that Sesheshet was not a well known queen in the way that Nefertari or Nefertiti were, although she is mentioned in some ancient Egyptian texts. It is thought that...
Egypt
Old Kingdom Mummy thought to be Queen Seshestet found
When I fired up Outlook this morning my eyes nearly popped out of my head - dozens of emails alerting me to the fact that the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet the mother of the Pharaoh Teti, have been found in the remains of a collapsed pyramid at Saqqara.
So thanks very much indeed to all of you who emailed. A selection of the best links are shown below:
So thanks very much indeed to all of you who emailed. A selection of the best links are shown below:
Yahoo! News
Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday.
After five hours spent lifting the lid of a sarcophagus in a pyramid discovered south of Cairo last year, they found a skull, legs, pelvis, other body parts wrapped in linen, and ancient pottery, the government's antiquities department said.
They also found gold wrappings which would have been put on the fingers of the mummified person. Grave robbers ransacked the burial chamber in ancient times and stole the other objects.
Reuters
"Although they did not find the name of the queen buried in the pyramid, all the signs indicate that she is Seshestet, the mother of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty," chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass said in a statement.
Teti ruled Egypt for at least 10 years around the year 2300 BC and is buried nearby. While archaeologists have found many royal mummies from ancient Egypt, most of them are from the New Kingdom, which began 500 years after Teti's time.
news24.com
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered what are thought to be the mummified remains of Queen Sesheshet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled for 11 years in around 2 300 BC.
The remains were found in the sarcophagus of a pyramid south of the capital Cairo, Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Thursday.
The mummy was found wrapped in cloth in the 22-metre long and four-metre wide chamber, he said, adding that the sarcophagus appeared to have been looted.
Radio America
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Arqueólogos egipcios descubrieron en una pirámide en Saqqara, en las afueras de El Cairo, una cámara mortuoria con un enorme sarcófago que contiene restos de una momia y fundas de dedos de oro, informó hoy el Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades.
La entrada original a la pirámide, dedicada según el arqueólogo jefe Zahi Hawass a la reina Sesheshet, madre del faraón Teti (ca. 2318-2300 A.C.), estaba cerrada con enormes bloques de granito.
Por eso, los arqueólogos utilizaron una apertura hecha por ladrones de tumbas hace ya miles de años para entrar en la cámara de 16 metros cuadrados.
The Star.com
With a photograph of the excavation in progress.
Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday.
After five hours spent lifting the lid of a sarcophagus in a pyramid discovered south of Cairo last year, they found a skull, legs, pelvis, other body parts wrapped in linen, and ancient pottery, the government's antiquities department said.
- More Re Discovery Of Tomb Of Queen Behenu
Reuters The well-known necropolis of Saqqara, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo, served the nearby city of Memphis and was scoured in ancient times by thieves. The 5th Dynasty is generally understood to have lasted from 2465 to 2323 BC, while the 6th Dynasty...
- Second Dynasty Tomb Found At Lahun
Reuters Archaeologists have found a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb near Egypt's mud brick Lahun pyramid, in a sign that the site held religious significance a millennium before previously thought, the site head said Tuesday. The find, down crumbling...
- Teti And Sesheshet
haaretz.com (Ran Shapira) The Egyptian researchers who, in early January, entered the burial room in the latest pyramid to be discovered in Saqqara, south of Cairo, labored for five hours before they could lift the lid of the sarcophagus within. Inside...
- Egypt Discovers 2,600 Year-old Mummy At Saqqara Burial Site
Google / Associated Press Inside the chamber, 22 mummies lay covered only by sand in four niches dug into the chamber's walls. Most were badly decomposed, showing only skulls and parts of skeletons, with decayed mummy wrappings. The sarcophagi were...
- More Re Sesheshet
El Pais (Jacinto Anton) This repeats much of what went before, but also makes the point that Sesheshet was not a well known queen in the way that Nefertari or Nefertiti were, although she is mentioned in some ancient Egyptian texts. It is thought that...