1. Scientists at the University of Boston have proven that the most famous queen of Egypt deliberately killed herself with cosmetics and medicinal preparations for the skin. They came to this conclusion after examining the contents of the bottle of this queen, which is in the Museum of Egyptology.
It contained some kind of lotion, or a remedy for the skin.
It was composed of fatty acids, nutmeg, palm oil. In addition, it contained asphalt and creosote, which at that time were widely used to treat various eczema.
But the most interesting thing in its composition is also the most dangerous carcinogen in the world - benzopyrene resin. As you know, it is this substance that causes cancer in smokers. Apparently, Hatshepsut used this remedy quite intensively, as a result of which she received a terrible and incurable disease - skin cancer, instead of disfiguring her skin with practically no aesthetic eczema. And, given the description from various historical chronicles that have come down to our time, the death of the queen came precisely from this disease.
2. When in 1903 scientists discovered the tomb of the glorious woman-Pharaoh Hatshepsut, they found that the coffin was empty. After some time, in one of the rooms nearby, two mummies were found - one in a coffin and one just on the floor. Archaeologists considered the mummy in the coffin (and it turned out to be the nanny Hatshepsut) more valuable and took it with them, and the second one - without any decorations and expensive clothes - remained lying until it was discovered again in our century. Archaeologist Zaha Hawass, bumping into it again, realized that the mummy is not as simple as it seemed to his predecessors. He drew attention to the fact that his left hand was pressed to his heart - only the pharaohs and their wives were buried in this way during the 18th dynasty.
Is it Hatshepsut? But how can you verify this? Hawass remembered that in 1880 they found a box with a Hatshepsut tooth, can he ask the dentist to make a comparison? Indeed, the found tooth perfectly fits the place of the lost one.
Genetic examination confirmed that this is the famous Pharaoh Hatshepsut.