Nearly 2,000 years ago, at a time when Egypt was under the control of
the Roman Empire, a young woman with an elaborate hairstyle was laid to
rest only yards away from a king's pyramid, researchers report. She was 5
feet 2 inches in height, around age 20 when she died, and was buried in
a decorated coffin whose face is gilded with gold. A nearby pyramid, at
a site called Hawara, was built about 2 millennia before her lifetime.
The location of her burial is known from archival notes.
High-resolution CT scans reveal that, before she was buried, her hair
was dressed in an elaborate hairstyle.
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