埃及公主精通武器使用

Some Egyptologists have dismissed armaments in females’ graves as token objects for the afterlife, but physiological characteristics of these female mummies showed they may have performed intensive martial activities. “These prin- cesses were active practitioners of hunting or athletic skills rather than merely symbolic owners of the weapons found in their tombs,” says Hashesh, of Egypt’s Beni-Suef University. The princesses’ tombs were unearthed from the Dahshur funerary complex south of Cairo in the 1890s. Alongside the bodies, excavators found weapons such as bows and ar- rows, flails, maces and daggers. The mummies were removed from their tombs and eventually housed in the basement of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, where they languished in obscurity until researchers rediscovered the bod- ies in 2020. …