An Imposing Egyptian Queen, Survived Only By Her Knees

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By Nathaniel Scharping
Dec 3, 2016 3:19 AMNov 19, 2019 8:22 PM
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An image of Nefertari, taken from inside her tomb. (Credit: The Yorck Project/Wikimedia) After years of speculation, researchers have proven that a pair of mummified knees found in Egypt's Valley of the Queens once belonged to Queen Nefertari, wife of Ramses the Great. The partial legs are all that remain of the legendarily beautiful Nefertari, who was buried in a lavish tomb during Egypt's 19th Dynasty, around the 13th century B.C. At some point after her death, robbers ransacked the tomb.

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