Queen Neith News Today

From a close-up inside look at an Egyptian pharaoh’s coffin to a 9,000-year-old shrine found in Jordan, 2022 was a great year to be a history fan.

From mummies with gold-plated tongues to a pyramid built for a previously unknown queen, here are 10 spectacular discoveries about ancient Egypt from 2022.

Archaeologists excavating at the necropolis at Saqqara, 20 miles south of Cairo, have unearthed 300 ornate coffins from the New Kingdom period – the first time burials from this era have been found at the site.

The discovery also uncovered a queen’s pyramid, which has since been tied to Queen Neith—a previously unknown queen to Egyptian history.

An unknown Egyptian Queen called Neith was in the Giza complex with countless mummies discovered in her crypt, close to King Tut's tomb.

Excavations at Saqqara have uncovered 300 coffins, 100 mummies, and a pyramid dedicated to Queen Neith, a previously unknown Egyptian ruler.

November 2022 is turning out to be a big month for Egypt and Egyptology. The entire world is joining that country in celebrating

By Zahi Hawass Previously, I announced unearthing the unknown Queen Neith’s name, 6th Dynasty’s King Teti’s wife and daughter. Therefore, this discovery expressed the earliest case of father-daughter marriage in Ancient Egypt as this phenomenon existed heavily in royal families at that time. The ancient Egyptian kings used to get married to their daughters or […]...

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