5,000-Year-Old Tomb May Have Belonged to a Powerful Female Pharaoh

Researchers excavating Meret-Neith;s grave in Abydos, Egypt, say that the sheer extravagance they have discovered suggests she may have been the first female pharaoh in ancient Egypt.

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