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Wide of exterior of Egyptian Museum in Cairo Cairo - 27 June, 20072. Close-up of head of mummy of Queen HatshepsutCairo - 27 June, 20073. Pull-out from close-up of head of mummy of Queen Hatshepsut4. Tilt-down...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of exterior of Egyptian Museum in Cairo \u003cbr/\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up of head of mummy of Queen Hatshepsut\u003cbr/\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pull-out from close-up of head of mummy of Queen Hatshepsut\u003cbr/\u003e4. Tilt-down from photographer taking photograph to mummy of Queen Hatshepsut\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of mummy of Queen Hatshepsut's wet nurse Sitre-In\u003cbr/\u003e6. Zoom-in to close-up of face of mummy of Sitre-In\u003cbr/\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close-up of face of mummy of Sitre-In\u003cbr/\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e8. Tilt-down of Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass looking at mummy of Queen Hatshepsut\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of glass cases containing the two mummies, surrounded by media and officials \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zahi Hawass, Head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We put all the artifacts of Hatshepsut's under the CT (Computerised (Axial) Tomography) scan machine.  In this box every Egyptologist believes that it is the liver of the Queen.  It has the throne name of Queen Hatshepsut.  Then we put it under the CT scan machine and we found out that it has the stomach plus the liver, and we found one tooth inside that box.  Doctor Ashraf Selim and Doctor Bahairy where able to identify that tooth with the upper part of that mummy that is in cave 60, that was removed two months ago from the valley of the kings.  And you know about tooth and teeth, it's like, it is identified with the person and therefore that tooth exactly fits with the mummy that we found in cave 60.  This lady was fat, she died in the age of 50, she had diabetes and she died because of cancer.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close-up of head of mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, pull-out to show media looking at mummy\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway of media surrounding mummy\u003cbr/\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan down length mummy of Queen Hatshepsut\u003cbr/\u003e13. Pan across mummy of Sitre-In \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zahi Hawass, Head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I can say that this is (the) most important discovery after the discovery of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCairo - 27 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e15. Tilt-up of two mummies in glass cases covered in Egyptian flags \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Near Luxor - 10 February, 2006\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide pan of Valley of the Kings \u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of entrance to tomb of King Tutankhamun \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Near Luxor - 28 June, 2006\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of Valley of the Kings \u003cbr/\u003eUsing DNA analysis and an ancient tooth, Egyptian authorities on Wednesday identified a mummy found a century ago as the remains of Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt's few women pharaohs and one of its most mysterious rulers.\u003cbr/\u003eThe mummy was discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings burial ground in 1903 but was left unidentified at the site for decades, until two months ago when it was brought to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for testing, said Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass.\u003cbr/\u003eHawass told The Associated Press they were \"100 percent certain\" the mummy belongs to Hatshepsut.\u003cbr/\u003eAlong with DNA probes, the scientific testing of a tooth found in a relic box containing some of the queen's embalmed organs was key to identifying the mummy as Hatshepsut's. \u003cbr/\u003eThe molar perfectly matched a gap in the jaw of the mummy.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We put all the artifacts of Hatshepsut's under the CT (Computerised (Axial) Tomography) scan machine.  In this box every Egyptologist believes that it is the liver of the Queen.  It has the throne name of Queen Hatshepsut.  Then we put it under the CT scan machine and we found out that it has the stomach plus the liver, and we found one tooth inside that box,\" Hawass said at a news briefing at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003e\"And you know about tooth and teeth, it's like, it is identified with the person and therefore that tooth exactly fits with the mummy that we found in cave 60,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eCave or Tomb 60 is the name given to the place where the mummy was found in the Valley of the Kings.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I can say that this is (the) most important discovery after the discovery of Tutankhamun,\" Hawass said.\u003cbr/\u003eA woman monarch who called herself a pharaoh, dressed like a man and also wore a false beard, Hatshepsut ruled during the 15th century B.C., wielding more power than two other women of ancient Egypt, Cleopatra and Nefertiti. \u003cbr/\u003eBut when her rule in the 18th Dynasty ended, all traces of her mysteriously disappeared, including her mummy.\u003cbr/\u003eAnother mummy, which had been in the Egyptian Museum for decades and was long believed to be the queen's wet nurse Sitre-In, was initially investigated as possibly being Hatshepsut herself.\u003cbr/\u003eHawass and Culture Minister Farouq Hosni ceremoniously unveiled the two mummies, kept inside long glass cases draped in the Egyptian flag, at at the museum on Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe mummy identified as Hatshepsut showed an obese woman, who died in her 50s, probably had diabetes and is also believed to have had liver cancer, Hawass said. \u003cbr/\u003eBut her left hand is positioned against her chest, in a traditional sign of royalty in ancient Egypt.\u003cbr/\u003eDNA bone samples taken from the mummy's hip bone and femur are being compared to the mummy of Hatshepsut's grandmother, Amos Nefreteri, said an Egyptian molecular geneticist who is on Hawass' team.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile scientists are still matching those mitochondrial DNA sequences, the molecular geneticist said on Wednesday that preliminary results were \"very encouraging.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHawass has led the search for Hatshepsut since a year ago, setting up a five (m) million US dollar DNA lab in the basement of the Cairo Museum with an international team of scientists. \u003cbr/\u003eThe study was funded by the Discovery channel, which is to broadcast an exclusive documentary on it in July.\u003cbr/\u003eHatshepsut is believed to have stolen the throne from her young stepson, Thutmose III. \u003cbr/\u003eHer rule of about 21 years was the longest among ancient Egyptian queens, ending in 1453 B.C. \u003cbr/\u003eHatshepsut's funerary temple is located in ancient Thebes, on the west bank of the Nile in today's Luxor, a multi-colonnaded sandstone  temple built to serve as tribute to her power. \u003cbr/\u003eSurrounding it are the Valley of Kings and the Valley of the Queens, the burial places of Egypt's pharaohs and their wives.\u003cbr/\u003eBut after Hatshepsut's death, her 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