Who Is Queen Nefertiti's Tomb?

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Ancient Egypt was once a famed era for architectural achievements and many other things. It is also a place in time that a woman might have held the same rights as the male counter parts. It is at this time that there were many powerful female figures. Figures that continue to hold a place in the history book even today. None are as famous as Queen Nefertiti, whom is still in her tomb hidden from the world, and Pharaoh Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh, to whom has had her art destroyed. There is more to them than that though. They left their marks on the society of their time. Those marks have also been made on the future.
From what I can recall learning, Nefertiti has busts everywhere throughout the ancient Egyptian society. Yet, her tomb has not been found. There has recently been speculation that she was buried before King Tutankhamen. Nicholas Reeves had a theory that Nefertiti had a burial chamber just beyond the burial chamber of the young King Tutankhamen, but that it was sealed behind a hidden door that may have been sealed years before (Where is Queen Nefertiti’s tomb?). Recent geological scan of that area has revealed two separate rooms of the boy kings burial chamber. One of these rooms lies just to the right of the north end with a small doorway to allow access. It is unknown at this time if they are indeed
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It seems that all things relating to this pharaoh had been destroyed. Archaeologists have found many destroyed sculpture’s and statues made in the honor of this feminine pharaoh. Even though they have pieced together most of the destroyed artifacts of Hatshepsut that have been found this far. However, it might be impossible to get them all as some of the pieces may have been lost to the corrosion of time and sand. Some of those restored pieces showed Hatshepsut as one gender or the other. Some, still, have she displayed as being dual-gendered (Ashton, “Hatshepsut, the Female

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