Photo by facetofaceafrica.comAccording to journalist Mark Oliver on ListVerse.com, "Ancient Egypt has fascinated the imagination since we first cleaned the sands away from the Great Sphinx. Some of the biggest discoveries of the ancient world still lie covered under the sands of Egypt, waiting to be revealed. Luckily for archaeologists, known objects turn up where they shouldn’t while unknown objects sometimes surface as one-of-a-kind, enormous structures built with dedication but no clear purpose. "In 2015," Oliver observed, "archaeologists stumbled upon the tomb of a woman who was buried among the great pyramids of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. They believe she may have been the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre and the mother of Pharaoh Mekahur—but they don’t really know.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2023 03:58 UTC