 | Spanish archaeologists digging in Egypt in 2017 unearthed a female mummy still wearing her jewels. The mummy was discovered in the necropolis below the temple of Pharaoh Thutmosis III (1490-1436 B.C.), on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor. The find dates to the Middle Kingdom (2137-1781 B.C.) |  For nearly four millennia, the “Lady of the Jewels” eluded tomb raiders, her sarcophagus trapped under a collapsed roof. |
| Archaeologists were cleaning and restoring several tombs in the necropolis that had been looted in antiquity when they realized that in one of the chambers of tomb XIV, part of the roof had already collapsed before robbers entered it. A large boulder, which had fallen down before the tomb was looted, had crushed and buried a previously untouched coffin with all its content. |  |
 | “These spectacular findings confirm that an elite necropolis is located under the mortuary temple of Thutmosis III. Wealthy and important individuals of the Middle Kingdom and their families were buried there." |  |
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