In 2007, researchers announced that Hatshepsut’s mummy had been identified in tomb KV 60 in the Valley of the Kings. A “CT scan of a single tooth in a box with Hatshepsut’s name on it ...

which plans to air a documentary about Hatshepsut's identification next month. A team of researchers used a type of medical imaging known as a CT scan to map the physical characteristics of the ...

"If the embalmer hadn't picked it up and put it in with the liver, there is no way we would have known what happened to Hatshepsut," Hawass says. Already the CT scans have changed history ...

Though the location of Hatshepsut's tomb is known to be one ... The box had been X rayed before, he said. But this time a CT scan revealed a tooth that, when measured, perfectly matches a missing ...

of Hatshepsut. To Hawass' surprise, the CT scan revealed that the box also contained a single tooth. "Not only was the fat lady from KV-60 missing a tooth, but the hole left behind and the type of ...

And the ID was made with advances in science; a CT scan of a single tooth in a box with Hatshepsut’s name on it perfectly matched a tooth socket in the mummy’s jaw. Royal lineage has been also ...

The evidence was found using CT scans and other tools ... the reign of ancient Egypt’s most powerful female leader, Queen Hatshepsut. Senmut’s final years also remain a mystery.

have pioneered the use of CT scans to study the New Kingdom pharaohs and warriors, including well-known names such as Hatshepsut, Tutankhamun, Ramesses III, Thutmose III and Rameses II.