Egypt's lost pyramid

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2 SAQQARA, Egypt -- About 4,300 years ago, Egyptian mourners seated the body of the late Queen Sesheshet in a burial chamber. Over the years, blowing sand covered her resting place. Now, archaeologists believe they have found what remains of her pyramid.

"There was so much sand dumped here that no one had any idea there was something buried underneath," Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, told reporters on November 11. At first, Hawass and his team didn't realize they had found the base of a pyramid because the top of it had eroded. Hawass says he believes the 16-foot-tart structure, with sides about 72 feet long, belonged to Sesheshet, the mother of King Teti, who started the sixth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom. "To find a new pyramid is always exciting," Hawass says. "This one is magical. It belonged to a queen."

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