Queen Meresankh the 3rd, a wife of pharaoh Chephren 2570 BCE.
Her parents were brother and sister. Her decorated tomb at Giza was originally planned for her mother, but she instead donated it for her daughter's use because she suddenly died. A statue depicting her mother embracing her is today located in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her sarcophagus and skeleton are today located in the Egyptian Museum, her skeleton reveals that she was 1.54 m tall and about 50 to 55 years at her death. Based on the anthropological analysis, she might have suffered from bilateral silent sinus syndrome. In one of the photos she is depicted as a princess with her son standing behind her royal mother queen Hetepheres the 2nd.
( LovingEgypt.com )
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