Found momia of queen Sesheshet in Egypt

The one that seems to be momia of queen Sesheshet he has been found in Saqqara by Egyptian archaeologists headed by Zahi Hawass, director of the Supreme Council of Antiques. Momia, of 4,300 years, is extremely ajada - nothing that to see with its same-type rutilantes of the New Empire, and has appeared in the funeral camera of the small pyramid of the same queen whose discovery was announced in November by the own Hawass.

Rest of the tomb of Sesheshet

Sesheshet is not a famous queen far from it (is not a Nefertiti nor a Nefertari), but it is thought that legitimacy to its son played an important role in the passage of the V I SAW dynasty of the Old Empire when granting somehow, Pharaoh Teti, first king of the new dynasty. Teti, del that only was in its pyramid a momificado arm (her mother, if she is it, has had more luck), happened to, last Pharaoh of dynasty V, considered the poor relative of magnificent IV the dynasty, the one of Keops, Kefrén and Micerinos.

Momia was deposited in a coffin, whose opening needed five working hours, but the discoverers do not mention inscription some. The small camera in which was momia had been sacked in spite of being sealed the entrance with two great granite stones: the thieves entered by a hole practiced by above. Nevertheless, have been covers sea breams for the momificados fingers.

Source: The country

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