REISNER OPENS TOMB OF QUEEN HETEPHENES

The tomb of Queen Hetephenes, the mother of Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, has just been opened by Professor G.A. Reisner '89. Professor of Egyptology at the University, who has spent several years making excavations in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids.

The identity of the tomb was ascertained from gold hieroglyphics engraved on the back of a carrying chair.

Queen Hetephenes, according to the inscriptions, was originally buried at Dashriv, a short distance south of the Great Pyramids. But owing to a robbery in this tomb the body was transferred to a safer position at the entrance of the pyramid of Giza. The sarcophagal chamber is located at the foot of a vertical shaft cut down 100 feet through the limestone.