Sci News: Bracelets of mother of Cheops helped to open one of long secrets Egypt

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In Ancient Egypt there were no internal sources of silver ore. Silver seldom comes across in the Egyptian archaeological records to an average bronze age (2100 — 1600 BC). Bracelets which were found in a tomb of the queen Heteferes I — mothers of the tsar Hufu, the builder of the Great pyramid in Giza — represent the biggest and well-known collection of silver artifacts early Egypt. Within new work experts Universities Makkuori and other countries studied samples of bracelets of the queen Heteferes, applying modern ways. They tried to understand the nature, and also metallurgical...