Mastaba of Queen Meresankh III

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Giza Governorate, Egypt

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Mastaba of Queen Meresankh III Reviews | Rating 4.4 out of 5 stars (8 reviews)

Mastaba of Queen Meresankh III is located in Giza Governorate, Egypt on Nazlet El-Semman, Al Haram. Mastaba of Queen Meresankh III is rated 4.4 out of 5 in the category historical landmark in Egypt.

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Matt Streb

Maybe it's as beautiful as I hoped it would be however we bought tickets, showed up and there was no guard or tourism agent at the actual site. The door was padlocked. Came back later after another employee elsewhere said there should be one and still noone. The pyramids were great though!

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M. F. Avon

Her parents were brother and sister. She married the pharaoh Khafra of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt and bore him four sons: Nebemakhet, Niuserre, Khenterka and Duaenre as well as a daughter named Shepsetkau.She held the royal titles of King's Daughter and King's Wife, Great of Scepter.

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Vinod Kumar

Took a special ticket and negotiated with two baksheesh demanding guards to see this. It is at the end of a complex alley. Well preserved, but not much to see for the ordinary tourist. Don't take phots without tickets.

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MahmOuD ALi

Her parents were brother and sister. She married the pharaoh Khafra of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt and bore him four sons: Nebemakhet, Niuserre, Khenterka and Duaenre as well as a daughter named Shepsetkau.[1] She held the royal titles of King's Daughter and King's Wife, Great of Scepter.[2] When she died some time shortly after the reign of Khafra, Meresankh was buried in an extensively decorated mastaba tomb at Giza along with a rock-cut chapel (G7530-5440). Inscriptions on the tomb provide both the time of her death and the date for her funeral, which followed some 272 days after her death.[3] She apparently died during the first regnal year of an unnamed king, possibly the pharaoh Menkaure.[4] This tomb was originally planned for her mother Hetepheres II, but she instead donated it for her daughter's use—which suggests that Meresankh's death was sudden and unexpected.[5] Hetepheres also provided her daughter with a black granite sarcophagus decorated with palace facades for Meresankh's burial.[6] Her tomb was discovered by archeologist George Reisner on April 23, 1927,[7] with subsequent excavations undertaken by his team on behalf of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her sarcophagus and skeleton are today located in the Cairo Museum; the latter reveals that she was 1.54 metres (5'1") tall and between 50–55 years at her death.[8] The tomb also contained a set of the earliest known canopic jars.[9] A limestone statue depicting Queen Hetepheres embracing her late daughter Meresankh was found in her tomb and is today located in the Museum of Fine Arts in Bosto

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Sameh Khodair

ancient pharose

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umesh suraiya

The images r very good

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RECTAL SEEPAGE

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