Guest Author - Julie S.

According to a recent tv special, which aired on the Discovery Channel, it is

believed that the corpse of missing Egyptian Queen Nefertiti has been finally

located.


Though the question of the mummy, exactly being that of Queen Nefertiti itself,

is something that is yet to be positively identified by investigating scientists.

Many feel way confident that the unknown mummy, which was found in a secret

burial chamber of King Amenhotep, in 1898, by noted Fench archaeologist

Victor Loret.


Not much is known about Queen Nefertiti, who is considered to be one of the

ancient world's most beautiful of female rulers, and also the stepmother of

the famous boy-king named Tutankhamun.


Nefertiti was the wife of the pharaoh Akhenaton, who ruled Egypt from 1353-

1336 B.C., and was called a heretic by his own people. Because he refused to

worship Egypt's gods, and bowed down to one god instead, which was the sun

god Aton.


The mummy, which was found in a room, not far from the pharaoh's burial

chamber. Was dubbed the catalog name of "Mummy 61072," but also had

a nickname as well, which was no other than "Younger Lady." This mummy,

is the one, that Discovery Channel Quest Scientist Joan Fletcher believes to

be the remains of the once mighty Queen Nefertiti. Originally, it had been

found in 1898 by Victor Loret, and was in the company of two other mummies.

One of which was a boy and the other an older woman.


Could this unidentified mummy, found in Amenhotep's burial chamber, be all

that is left of the once beautiful Queen Nefertiti? Joan Fletcher is very positive

that it is, and for a number of valid reasons, as there are some very interesting

clues that were also with the three mummies.


Amid these existing clues, is a Nubian-type of wig, something which was very

popular, and worn only by royal women of Queen Nefertiti's time period. Some

of the other clues is a shaved head and twicely-pierced ear lobe.


All three mummies were examined by a team of highly-qualifed scientists, and

found to have been from the XVIIIth Dynasty. Which is approximately the same

time-frame during which Queen Nefertiti lived and ruled.


If this female mummy is positively identified as being Queen Nefertiti, it will

finally answer a lot of unanswered questions about her fate, and lay to rest the

mystery surrounding her disappearance long ago.