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Today's featured article Burial chamber of Kha and Merit as discovered in 1906 The tomb of Kha and Merit is the funerary chapel and burial place of the ancient Egyptian foreman Kha and his wife Merit, in the northern cemetery of the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina. Kha supervised the workforce who constructed royal tombs during the reigns of the pharaohs Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III (r. 1425 – 1353 BC) in the mid–Eighteenth Dynasty of the early New Kingdom of Egypt. He died in his 60s, while Merit died before him in her 20s or 30s. The couple's pyramid-shaped chapel has been known since at least 1818. The tomb was cut into the base of the cliffs. This position allowed the entrance to be quickly buried by debris deposited by landslides and later tomb construction, hiding its location from ancient robbers. Almost all of the contents of the tomb were awarded to the excavators and were shipped to Italy soon after the discovery. They have been displayed in the Museo Egizio in Turin since their arrival, and an entire gallery is devoted to them. (Full article...) Recently featured: Ferrari FF Title (album) Elvis Presley Today's featured picture {{{caption}}} Archive More featured pictures   Lilium lophophorum flower ... that the unique flower shape of Lilium lophophorum (pictured) is adapted to protect its reproductive organs from the harsh ultraviolet light and torrential rains of its habitat? ... that with the Green Bay Packers' loss in the 2020 NFC Championship Game, Aaron Rodgers "became the first quarterback in NFL history to lose four straight NFC Championship Games"? ... that The House of Bijapur has been called a "painted curtain call" since the dynasty it depicts was overthrown only a few years later? ... that Dethloff Willrodt fought for the Union army on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, having previously been a soldier in the Confederate army? ... that in Greek mythology, Achilles promised to marry Pisidice if she would help him conquer her homeland, but afterwards he had her executed for treason? ... that blogger Charles LeBlanc interviewed a man who carried out a mass shooting the following year? ... that for cultural reasons the jijin was permitted to be worn by Catholic priests in China even while celebrating Mass? ... that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"? ... that both the comedy film Starbuck, and the Holstein bull it was named after, had cloned remakes?

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