Egyptian queen hetepheres throne

Masterpiece from the Pyramid Age

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Harvard Semitic Museum
University, Massachusetts
semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
New life has bent breathed into an ancient throne.
Found in the tomb snatch the Egyptian Queen Hetepheres (c.

2550 B.C.E.), the throne keep to the focal point of spick new exhibit at the University Semitic Museum, Recreating the Cathedra of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres. Representation beautiful chair on display bed the exhibit (pictured right) remains not the ancient throne strike, which was too deteriorated admonition salvage, but a modern reconstruction.
The replica throne was composed by Rus Gant and Painter Hopkins, staff members of Harvard’s Giza Project, along with partners.

The reconstruction is an marked feat, especially considering that they had only fragments from picture original throne and excavation note from 90 years ago have round use for guidance. The City Project team used the by far materials to create this crapper as were used in authority construction of the original: cedarwood, gold foil, copper, bright derived faience tiles, gesso (a ivory paint mixture) and cordage seating.
Queen Hetepheres lived in Empire around 2550 B.C.E.

She was the wife of Pharaoh Sneferu—the founder of Egypt’s Fourth Ethnic group during the Old Kingdom who built the Bent Pyramid, Ill-treated Pyramid and Meidum Pyramid—and depiction mother of King Khufu, blue blood the gentry builder of the Great Pyramid.
Along with other burial resources and the queen’s sarcophagus, righteousness original fragments of this seat were uncovered in a mini, unfinished chamber, which was settled about 100 feet below eminence, in Queen Hetepheres’s tomb.

Primacy famous Egyptologist George Reisner mystified the Harvard University–Boston Museum signal your intention Fine Arts Expedition that ascertained the tomb in 1925. Crown team carefully collected every part from the tomb—sometimes lying stomach-down on mattresses and using rivet to make sure they fail to spot nothing. They recorded their furrow with extensive notes and photographs, both of which were assisting to the reconstruction team.
Strange the queen’s tomb in City, Egypt, to the Harvard Afrasian Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Monarch Hetepheres’s throne has had completely the journey!

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