August 9, 2026
New Research Reveals That a Pharaoh’s Daughters Were Skilled at Archery 4,000 Years Ago
For more than a century, the skeletal remains of Ancient Egyptian King Hor and five royal women sat untouched in a museum basement. The group, which lived during the Late Middle Kingdom (1850–1700 BCE), was originally excavated from their royal tombs in Dahshur, Egypt, in the late 1800s CE by a French archaeologist for study. While archaeologists had long examined the tombs and their ceremonial objects, the skeletons themselves had never been thoroughly researched.
