Queen's Mummy Found In 4,300- Year-Old Pyramid

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 13:49 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A skull, pelvis, legs, and pieces of a torso found inside a granite sarcophagus likely belonged to Queen Seshseshet, mother the first pharaoh of Egypt's 6th dynasty.

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