Czech expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian unknown queen. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** The pyramid necropolis at Abusir (EAR), which the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty o University has been excavating for almost 55 years, proved once again that it is one of th sites in Egypt. During autumn, members of the Czech Mission explored a tomb, which is part cemetery to the south of the funerary complex of King Raneferef. In the cemetery, members elite of the middle of the Fifth Dynasty (about 2450 B.C.) were buried. The tomb (marked by Egyptologists as AC 30) is both dimensionally and shape-wise (it is cl mastaba) analogous with other tombs in the area. A chapel with a pair of false doors in it located in the above-ground part of the mastaba. The burial chamber in its substructure wa through a vertical shaft. Despite the fact that the tomb was destroyed by tomb- and stone- members of the Czech Mission managed to find part of the funerary equipment –  for example model vessels or 4 copper tool models – in the burial chamber. Archaeological research of the burial chamber also revealed masons’ inscriptions on its si beyond doubt indicate that the owner of the tomb was the "King's wife" and "Mother of the (III). This is a very important discovery because it provides new information on the histo in the middle of the Fifth Dynasty. The so far unknown Queen Khentkaus III was likely the Raneferef, whose tomb complex with an Unfinished pyramid and a significant collection of f papyrus archive or a collection of sovereign’s statues) was uncovered by Czech Egyptologis tomb in the 1980s and 1990s. Even more important is another title of Khentkaus - "Mother of the King". If the queen was the reign of King Niuserre, as is suggested, for example, by the find of mud seals, one ca probably was the mother of King Menkauhor, the successor of Niuserre on the Egyptian thron concerning this king is rather scarce, and this proposed relationship with the royal famil in Abusir is thus very important. Abusir is an important archaeological site, located approximately 25 km to the southwest o shaft-tombs dated to the Saite-Persian period (circa 525 B.C.).