A mission of French archaeologists has discovered the mortuary camera of the faraona Behenu, of the dynasty VI (2374-2192 B.C.), in the monumental Saqara area, 25 kilometers to the south of Cairo, he announced today the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
According to a note of this institution, the mortuary camera was found during the works of cleanliness of the pyramid of Behenu, in the area of The Shawaf, in the south of Saqara and to the west of the pyramid of king Pepi I, who can be the husband of this faraona.
Also, there found texts belonging to the typical real pyramids of the dynasties V and VI (2465-2150 B.C.) in two of the internal walls of the mortuary camera with contents on the ancient Egyptian religions.
To protect the difuntoEstos texts had the target to protect to the deceased buried in the pyramid and to help him to rise to the skies, as tells the General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawas, that he signs the note of the Advice. The chief of the mission of French archaeologists, Philippe Collombert, to the one who quotes the note, said that during the excavations inside the mortuary camera there was also the sarcofagus of the queen Behenu.
The sarcofagus preserved in the good state, is of granite and it contains several qualifications of the faraona, although he does not say anything on the identity of his husband, still a mystery.
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