They eventually narrowed the search to two.
The quest to identify Hatshepsut began about a year ago, when Egyptian antiquities authorities began analyzing six unidentified female mummies. 'Nobody ever even imagined that this could be the mummy of a queen.' But the mummy on the floor was never identified.įor more than a century, she remained largely forgotten in Tomb KV60 in the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's West Bank.Ĭulture Minister Farouk Hosny said modern science has corrected the historical record. The tomb was believed to belong to Hatshepsut's wet nurse. It was actually found more than 100 years ago - an overweight woman lying on the floor in somebody else's tomb, with one arm bent over her chest in the position reserved for royalty. The mummy of Queen Hatshepsut was not found in a newly discovered tomb. VOA correspondent Challiss McDonough has details from Cairo.
Her remains were long believed to have been lost. Egyptian authorities say they have identified the mummy belonging to ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut.
