Finally, that pair of female legs, tibiae and fibula that were in a reliquary of the Egyptian Museum of Turin from the early 900s, have an owner. According to a group of international archeologists, they belonged to Nefertari, the favorite wife of Pharaoh Ramses II.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himFinally that couple of female legs, shins and fibulae that were in a reliquary of the Egyptian Museum of Turin from the early 900s, have an owner. According to a group of international archeologists, they belonged to Nefertari, the favorite wife of Pharaoh Ramses II.
After surveys, summarized in a study on Plos One, it was concluded that those legs were precisely one of the most famous queens of Ancient Egypt.
The analyzes made from a chemical, anthropological, genetic and radiocarbon dating point of view speak of an adult woman who died at the age of forty, whose legs had been embalmed, with methods used in the mummification of the 13th century BC.
The splendid decorated tomb of Nefertari in the Valley of the Queens, on the west bank of the Nile opposite the city of Thebes (now Luxor), had been plundered in ancient times. Its discovery had taken place in 1904 by the archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli.
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At the time the various remains had been sent to the Egyptian Museum of Turin, including parts of a pair of mummified legs. But studies to name these artifacts have only recently been undertaken.
Finally, all the objects inside the tomb lead to support that it was the burial of Queen Nefertari.
Dominella Trunfio
