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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: Egypt's Female Pharaoh Revealed by Chipped Tooth, Experts Say


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A CT scan shows a missing molar in the skull of a female mummy—the larger of two mummies found in a simple tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.

On June 27 Egyptian authorities announced that the tooth had been found in a box of embalmed organs that once belonged to the female king Hatshepsut, identifying the "obese" mummy as the long-lost ruler.

Photograph courtesy Discovery Channel