The 4,200-year-old burial chamber of Queen Behenu has been discovered in Saqqara in Giza.French archaeologists digging in the necropolis of Pepi I discovered the tomb with an intact sarcophagus and a ...

After Pharaoh Pepi I died in about 2350 B.C., the queen acted as a regent for her 6-year-old son, Pepi II, until he came of ... which is about an hour's drive south of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...