Top Ten Archaeology Stories of 2007
3. Egypt's Female Pharaoh Revealed by Chipped Tooth, Experts Say (June 27, 2007)
A broken tooth became the key to identifying the mummy of Hatshepsut, the woman who ruled ancient Egypt as both queen and king nearly 3,500 years ago.
A CT scan shows a missing molar in the skull of a female mummy—the larger of two mummies found in a simple tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
On June 27 Egyptian authorities announced that the tooth had been found in a box of embalmed organs that once belonged to the female king Hatshepsut, identifying the "obese" mummy as the long-lost ruler.
Photograph courtesy Discovery Channel
