Talking Pyramids

The National Geographic has an update on the excavation of the pyramid of Sesheshet. A little bit more information has been released about the find. Earlier reports of the sarcophagus having been previously opened by tomb robbers has turned out not to be the case.

I had thought it a bit odd that the theives would leave some of the gold in there and then carefully place the 6 ton lid back on the sarcophagus.

The search for inscriptions to help understand more about the owner of the pyramid was not successfull. Archaeologists discovered that, unlike the walls of her son’s burial chamber, all the walls of her 127-square sarcophagus chamber were compleley bare. It seems that queen Sesheshet was the last queen to be buried without inscriptions.

Here’s an exerpt from the National Geographic story:

The thieves entered through a tunnel from the top, because they couldn’t get through the main entrance, said Hawass, who is also a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)

Fortunately, Seshseshet’s mummy was inside a granite sarcophagus with a six-ton lid, so the thieves left the body and its decorations of gold jewelry untouched.

“They didn’t open the sarcophagus; they were using their hands,” said Hawass, whose team used heavy machinery to remove the lid.

Read the full story: Queen’s Mummy Found In 4,300-Year-Old Pyramid

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