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© Stéphane Compoint
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At the Egyptian Museum of Cairo is the lovely sarcophagus of Queen Ankhesenpepy I, one of King Pepi I’s last wives. The black stone slab is nicknamed “the South Saqqara Stone” and was the lid for the Queen’s sarcophagus; it is also engraved with the annals of the Vth and VIth dynasties. But between the reigns of Teti, the first king of the VIth dynasty, and Pepi I, the third, several lines of text have been erased, leaving barely visible remains of yet another name: Userkare. Vassil Dobrev identified the nature of the text in 1993 and is becoming increasingly convinced that there was another king, Userkare, whom someone wished to erase from history.
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