Egyptian Mummy is Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — "Egyptian authorities said Wednesday that a mummy found a century ago has been identified as the remains of pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled over Egypt during the 15th century B.C.
Hatshepsut was known for dressing like a man and wearing a false beard. But when her rule ended, all traces of her mysteriously disappeared, including her mummy.
Discovered in 1903 in the Valley of the Kings, the mummy was left on site until two months ago when it was brought to the Cairo Museum for testing, Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said."

And She Was Much Like Cheney, Fat, Balding and Pretty Ugly

The find is extraordinary because it's the first historic identifiable royal mummy found since Tutankhamen in 1922. There were other women rulers of Egypt such as Cleopatra, but this gal was as far in the past to Cleo as Cleo is to us. Amazing.

"First of all, the mummy was not just overweight, she was obese," said Egyptologist Donald Ryan, who in 1989 rediscovered the KV60 tomb, where the mummy believed to be Hatshepsut lay uncoffined on the floor. The mummy, recently located by noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt's secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, following a one year study, shows an overweight woman just over five feet tall, who died at about 50.
Findings revealed that Hatshepsut was balding in front, but let the hair on the back of her head grow really long. The Egyptian Queen also sported black and red nail polish, a rather Goth look for someone past middle age, reports LiveScience. Examinations further revealed that Hatshepsut had decayed teeth and possibly suffered from a skin disease. Ashraf Selim, Cairo University radiologist, who examined the mummy, said it showed signs of a rather disgusting skin disease on the face and neck, which might have added to Hatshepsut's health problems."


her temple, one of the best preserved ruins in the world