The burial chamber of Khentkaus III, a royal leader of the Old Kingdom, was discovered in the necropolis of Abusir, southwest of Cairo, some 650 feet from her husband, Pharaoh Neferefre – also known as Reneferef – in 2016. The find helped shine light on what project leader Professor Miroslav Barta called “a black patch in the history of the Old Kingdom,” and the team from the Czech Institute of Egyptology think the inscriptions inside may help offer insight into a time not too dissimilar from our own. Alongside human remains ... Read even more
