Strong women of all times and peoples aroused admiration and envy, worship and persecution, but in history there is a woman-pharaoh information about whom they even combed off the stones, the statues were washed into powder, and the mummy of the unfortunate woman was reburied so many times that they simply lost … And her name Hatshepsut!
Decades of careful study of Egyptian antiquities passed, after which Egyptologists decided to unravel one of the mysterious disappearances in history, and the beginning was laid in determining the last location of the queen's body after embalming. It seemed to them that it was underground more than a hundred meters from the surface of the Valley of the Kings, in her tomb KV20. However, they were disappointed, the tomb was plundered, and now the search will take place throughout Egypt.
The search continued in the temple of Karnak, built according to available data during the reign of a powerful woman, and it was here that the seekers were lucky and they found a statue, which they consider to be the image of Hatshepsut.
And not far away in the thickness of the earth, an object was discovered that additionally confirms the belonging of the human appearance to the statue - this is a cartouche with the name of the queen. In our understanding, this is the seal of the pharaoh. Maybe she herself ordered to bury these objects in order to be found through the centuries …
One of the first places associated with the disappeared powerful woman, which underwent restoration, is the red chapel, her place of worship. Of course, we will not be able to read a word on these colorful walls, but these ornate hieroglyphs tell the experienced eye about the turns of life on the path of the famous Hatshepsut.
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By birth, she was the first and direct descendant of Pharaoh Thutmose I, the father of the soul did not look for the heiress and predicted a great future for her, since most likely none of the male heirs met his high requirements. But, as you know, things turned out differently, and the bright life of the pharaoh was cut short suddenly.
And it’s no secret that in such cases the rise to power of indirect heirs is very great, and that is what happened. Pharaoh was Thutmose II, Hatshepsut's half-brother, born of a slave, and in order to raise his status in one fell swoop, he chose a simple way - to marry an heiress …
And in our time, in the center of the capital of modern Egypt - Cairo, a discouraging expedition begins in its scope to find the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut. How can this be done if the current Sherlocks and the victim are separated by more than one millennium?
Signs are required: age from 40 to 50, eyes set wide, proud nose, small mouth, face oval after many years is most likely heart-shaped, should be wrapped in loose tissue. And a special, main sign, like a tattoo nowadays, her left arm is bent at the elbow and pressed to her body, a sign of belonging to a royal family.
So, researcher Zaakhih Avas has put together a list of possible candidates from uninspected mummies and is now sent in search of them and seizure for detailed study in a special laboratory. I wonder what happened next?