The World’s Wonders: Long lost Queen

She was found lying facedown in a pile of rubble, but her hairstyle and headdress marked her as royalty. Discovered by archaeologist Betsy Bryan and her team at a temple site in Luxor, Egypt, the black stone----just over five feet tall----turned out to be the only known life-size figure of Queen Tiye by herself(above)

More than 3,300 years ago, Tiye was the region’s ,pst powerful woman: first wife of the pharaoh  Amenhotep III; mother of Akhenaten; and possibly the grandmother of the boy king, Tutankhamun. Bryan speculates that Tiye may even have ruled briefly following her husband’s death. ----Cate Lineberry

世界奇闻：失而复得的女王雕像

她被发现脸朝上躺在一堆鹅卵石中，但她的头发式样和头饰表明她的皇族身份。由考古学家贝特西. 布赖恩及其古队在埃及鲁克镇的一个小庙遗址上发现，该雕像只有五英尺高，被证明是至今为世人所知的泰伊女王的真人尺寸雕像。

3，300多年以前，泰伊是该地区最有权力的女人：法老阿曼胡特普三世的第一个妻子；阿克汗那騰的母亲；可能还是幼王图坦克汗穆的祖母。布赖恩推测泰伊甚至可能在其丈夫死后短暂地统治过国家。                   ——卡特. 拉那贝里

注: 泰伊女王的塑像雕像建成于世纪前1391年至1352年, 现存放在开罗的埃及博物馆内。

（译自National Geographic Novenber 2006)