"Who killed Ramesses III? How science solved an ..." Topic

…ancient Egyptian murder mystery

"Conspiring wives. Screaming mummies. Centuries of speculation. Questions about the so-called royal harem conspiracy—a plot to kill ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III around 1155 B.C.—have persisted for over 3,000 years.

The succession-driven plot sounds like a real-life Game of Thrones, but the mystery of how archaeologists unraveled it three millennia later would be at home on any detective show.

What historians knew is that the conspiracy had pitted two of the pharaoh's children—the sons of Tyti and Tiye—against one another. But the details of the plot—and whether it had actually succeeded in killing the pharaoh—remained one of the most intriguing cold cases in history until modern archaeology helped solve it…"

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Gold tongues, nails found in Ptolemaic tombs

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1,500 painted blocks from Hatshepsut's temple found

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