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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

It's a Queen with Hieroglyphic Texts, says Discovery News: Ancient Egyptian Queen's Burial Chamber Discovered in Saqqara

Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News in her

Ancient Egyptian Queen's Burial Chamber Discovered writes:
"French archaeologists working at Saqqara have unearthed the burial chamber of a 4,000-year-old queen, Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), announced today.

Badly destroyed, the 33-by 16-foot burial chamber belonged to Queen Behenu, wife of either King Pepi I or Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty."
Read the full article here.