Queen khentkawes
Khentkaus I, also referred to as Khentkawes was a royal woman who lived in ancient Egypt during the 4th dynasty and the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom. She may have been a daughter of King Mycerinus, the wife of both King Shepseskaf and King Userkaf (the founder of the fifth dynasty), the mother of King Sahure, and perhaps, in her own right, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt. Her mastaba at Giza Necropolis is located very close to Menkaure's pyramid complex.
This close connection may point to a family relationship. Although the relationship is not clear, the proximity of the pyramid complex of Khentkaus to that of King Menkaure has led to the opinion that she may have been his daughter.
Queens of Egypt
She may have been the daughter of Menkaure, this is considered widely, and much evidence supports the idea. Khentkaus may have been married to King Userkaf and may have been the mother of Sahure, who was an Egyptian pharaoh, who ruled the Fifth Dynasty from 2465 to 2325 BC, a period marked by political and cultural apex during the Old Kingdom Period.
Czech archaeologists discovered Khentaus III's tomb in 2015, but her existence is scarce. Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty states there was no previous knowledge of her, known as Khebtkaus III.
Khent Kaos took the throne after the death of King Shepseskaf. She is the true heir of the king and is the first queen who wrote on the door of her pyramid "the king of the sea and tribal faces, the royal mother and the daughter of God". All Egyptologists who have studied her role in the story of the Old Kingdom say that she was the wife of SHP. s. Kav or at least related to him.
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