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– some of which still sealed. These funereal riches, they say, bolster the case that she was a person of great significance, maybe even Egypt's first female pharaoh.
An international team of archaeologists led by Christiana Köhler of the University of Vienna and working with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is currently working on discovering more of the lavish monument in which Meret-Neith was buried so many years ago. And new archaeological technologies were used to better understand the way the burial monument was built. Meret-Neith's funereal complex, built of unbaked brick, clay, and wood, included the tombs of 41 courtiers and servants who were interred with her.
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