Egypt's Female Pharaoh mummy found

[KarlMarx]

CAIRO, June 26 -- The centuries-old search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, may finally have ended.
According to US-based Discovery Channel, Egypt's antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass will announce at a media conference in Cairo on Wednesday "the most important find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun" in 1922.
Egyptology discussion boards have been abuzz with the news that the one of the most important discoveries in Egypt's history could be announced soon.
A broken tooth was the latest clue which led archaeologists to explore the possibility they had indeed found Hatshepsut.

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This is, indeed, big news. In spite of popular belief, few mummies of pharaohs have survived to this day. Even fewer of the more well known ones. Hatshepsut is one of the most well known pharaohs, in Egyptological circles that is.

Hatshepsut was one of a handful of female pharaohs (the most famous being Cleopatra). Hatshepsut was King Tut's great-great aunt (sort of). She reigned during the Eighteenth Dynasty, when Egypt was at the peak of its power. Her biggest claim to fame, however, isn't just the fact that she was a female pharaoh, but how she went about it. She reigned as a co-regent to her young step-son Thutmose III, but as he grew older, she pushed him aside and reigned as pharaoh in her own right. She also had herself portrayed as a male in temple inscriptions and in her tomb to pass herself off as a valid pharaoh.

Eventually, however, Thutmose found a way of getting her out of the way and established himself as pharaoh. With divine order (Ma'at) restored, Thutmose began a systematic campaign of having her name expunged from all inscriptions and kings' lists. Her existence was rediscovered by archaeologists in the 18th or 19th centuries.

You could say (and I definitely do ) that Hatshepsut was a lot like a modern day female presidential candidate and just as big a schemer!

[Psychoblues]

There will someday be a tomb of Hillary Clinton found and it will no doubt be astounding to those who find it.

[medical 2933]

A tooth found in a relic box has led archaeologists to identify a long-ignored mummy as being Egypt's most powerful female pharaoh— essentially one of the most significant finds since King Tutankhamun's tomb, reports the Jerusalem Post.

[medical 2933]

The centuries-old search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, may finally have ended.

[medical 2933]

CAIRO — The centuries-old search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s most famous female pharaoh, may finally have ended.

[medical 2933]

According to US-based Discovery Channel, Egypt's antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass will announce at a media conference in Cairo on Wednesday "the most important find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun" in 1922.

[medical 2933]

A broken tooth has become the key to identifying the mummy of Hatshepsut, the woman who ruled ancient Egypt as both queen and king nearly 3,500 years ago.

[medical 2933]

According to US-based Discovery Channel, Egypt’s antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass will announce at a media conference in Cairo on Wednesday “the most important find in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun” in 1922.

[KarlMarx]

According to US-based Discovery Channel, Egypt’s antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass will announce at a media conference in Cairo on Wednesday “the most important find in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun” in 1922.

He tends to be theatrical, but still his heart is in the right place. I think he's helped raise interest in the field of Ancient Egypt quite a bit...

if I were to pick the most important find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, it would be the discovery (or should I say "rediscovery") of KV5, the tombs of the sons of Ramses II (he had over 70). Before the discovery effort is finished, KV5 may very well turn out to be the largest tomb in all of Egypt (approximately 150 rooms have been discovered so far, according to Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV5

[medical 2933]

Thutmose found a way of getting her out of the way and established himself as pharaoh.

[medical 2933]

The mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's greatest female pharaoh, has been identified.

[medical 2933]

i want to know some update about female mummy.