Word: meryet
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Despoiled Queen. At Thebes, near the Valley of the Kings, where Lord Carnarvon found Tutankhamen, Herbert E. Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition unearthed the mummy of Meryet-Amun, more than 3,000 years old, despoiled by robbers, but still in a decent state of preservation. Queen Meryet-Amun (1480-40 B.C.) died soon after her coronation. Her body was prepared and wrapped in many thicknesses of bandage. The inner coffin which covered her corpse was decorated, according to Egyptian ritual, with a replica of her body. On the forehead was the tenon hole which had held...
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