Pyramid of Queen Hetepheres I and Eastern Cemetery

The next stop on the tour will be to the eastern cometary and the pyramid built for Queen Hetepheres I. Hetepheres I was the Queen of Egypt at the time being married to Snefru having born a son Khufu the great pyramid builder himself. When he took over as pharaoh of Egypt he erected the pyramid that would be used as the tomb for his mother. This tomb was a major discovery when it was finally found in 1925. What they found was interesting because unlike the other pyramids they discovered, this one was largely in tact! Most of the other places in the complex had been looted by grave robbers trying to get rich; while this one had been robbed in ancient times it was largely left untouched and many artifacts were able to come out of it.Another oddity about this pyramid is that though there were many treasures to be found, there was no body. When researchers finally made their way to the burial chamber and opened the sarcophagus her body was missing from it. The many treasures found inside help us get a glimpse into the lives of Egyptians living at this time including their feelings on death and the afterlife as well as what they considered to be valuable objects and filling the tomb with them.