Queen Hetepheres Chair – The chair is made of wood, coated with gold foil and is about 4,500 years old.

Harvard University has created a full-scale reproduction of the golden chair/throne of Queen Hetepheres, the wife of Pharaoh Snefru and the mother of Pharaoh Khufu who built the Great Pyramid.

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Her tomb was found near the Great Pyramid along with many elaborate grave goods but her mummy was not in the tombs sarcophagus.

A reconstruction of the gold-sheet throne of Hetepheres, mother of Khufu, I am proposing that the void in the Great Pyramid might have been constructed to contain a similar throne, endowed with sheets of (meteoritic) Iron. The complete paper

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