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New radiology techniques have led to the discovery that one of six mummies currently residing in the Cairo museum belongs to the most famous Egyptian queen - Hatshepsut.

The new examination also voids the belief that one of the other mummies belonged to Tohotmos I, Hatshepsut’s father. Instead it is now thought that the mummy belongs to a non royal.

Egypt Farouq Hosny and Secretary General of the Supreme Council for antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawas declared that the team which comprised Egyptologists, archeologists and University Professors uncovered serious secrets that were not known previously during the conduct of studies and researches with radio-active materials over six mummies existing presently at the Egyptian museum and date back to the era of Modern Kingdom.

Two of these mummies were found in the tomb 35 at Kings Valley, another two were found in the mummies disguised burial at El-Deir Al-Bahary in 1982, while the last two were found at tomb No. 60 at Kings Valley by Heward Carter, one of them it was verified that it belongs to Queen Hatshepsut and the other for the Royal Nanny “Set Ra In”.The most astonishing and important discovery – that was announced during the press conference at the main parlor of the Egyptian Museum – is what was disclosed by Dr. Zahi Hawas during the study of mummies of Tohotmos 1st, 2nd and 3rd . It was revealed that the mummy which was thought belonging to King Tohotmos 1st was not a royal one and it was not for Tohotmos 1st but for unidentified person, which blow up all facts and information previously known on this mummy as belonging to Tohotmos 1st…

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