Cairo, (EFE).- A joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission has restored the pyramid of Queen Tetisheri, the last built for a queen in ancient Egypt, after five years of work on the site, the Ministry of Antiquities announced today. Egyptian.
In a ministry statement, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, highlighted “the great historical and archaeological importance of the pyramid, being the last pyramid built for a queen in ancient Egypt, as well as the distinguished method of construction compared to all the pyramids built with mud bricks in ancient Egypt.
The restoration has been carried out during the current working season of the mission in the province of Sohag, located in southern Egypt.
Waziri said the mission also managed to uncover a cemetery from the era of King Ahmose I, who reigned between 1575 and 1550 BC. C., and that was not known before, in addition to buildings that may have been houses or service buildings dating from the same time.
The pyramid restoration project is part of the management and conservation of the South Abydos site, which is carried out under the supervision of the Egyptian-American mission “Abydos South Project” (ASP), which began in 2018 by a team of antiquities inspectors in Sohag and Abydos, later joined by Princeton University.
Queen Tetisheri was known for being one of the most important queens in ancient Egypt and for her great influence over her son, Seqenenre Tao, and her grandson, Ahmosis, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty.