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A 5,000-year-old royal mystery: Digital clues point to Meretneith as Egypt's female king

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More than 5,000 years ago, a royal woman named Meretneith (also written as Merneith) lived in ancient Egypt. She was possibly the daughter of Djer, the third king of the First Dynasty, a period when the first kings ruled over a unified Egypt.

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