Until the discovery, Hawass and others had believed that the smaller mummy — with long, wavy, white hair and its fingers individually bandaged — was more likely Hatshepsut.

"I think the face is quite royal," Hawass wrote of the smaller mummy in a recent issue of the Egyptology quarterly journal KMT.

But today, smiling in front of a horde of journalists at the Egyptian Museum, Hawass admitted, "I was wrong..."

This is a repeat of previous stories but I have posted it because it has a good video attached.

Egypt's Female Pharaoh Revealed by Chipped Tooth, Experts Say, Dan Morrison, National geographic News, District of Columbia, USA, June 27, 2007.

When Marty Johnson started his bioscience career, he never dreamed he would travel to Cairo and train Egyptian scientists to perform DNA tests on mummies of the country’s most powerful and mysterious pharaohs.

Johnson, a senior application scientist who has worked with Applied Biosystems in Foster City for 21 years, found himself holding a vial of powdered bone from the body of pharaoh Hatshepsut, arguably Egypt’s most powerful female leader of all time.

“I looked at the microscopic amount of fluid and thought, ‘This is the most important piece of DNA I’ve ever worked with,’” Johnson said.

Scientists weren’t even certain they had positively identified Hatshepsut until Wednesday, when a missing tooth confirmed they had the legendary queen’s mummy...

Foster City scientists test DNA of Queen Mummy, Beth Winegarner, The San Francisco Examiner, California, USA, June 28, 2007.

The following is a selection of three books to give you more of a background to Hatshepsut. Joyce Tyldesley's "Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh" and "Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt" and "Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh" by Catharine Roehrig which accompanied the recent Metropolitan Museum of New York exhibition.

, Joyce Tyldesley, Penguin Books, UK, 1998, pp. 304.

Tyldesley presents a highly balanced discussion of King Hatshepsut, with a full presentation of the previous assessments of her character and reign, as well as the more current ones. The definitive biography to date. A must read! ...

Dennis Forbes, KMT Magazine, USA, Summer 1997.

, Joyce Tyldesley, Thames & Hudson, UK, 2006, pp. 224.

Following the same format as the Chronicle of the Pharaohs mentioned above, this new publication looks at the lives and times of the Queens of Egypt and female members of the royal family...

Both “Chronicle” books are really recommended as a good and sound introduction to ancient Egypt...

Ancient Egypt Magazine, UK, Issue 39, December 2006 / January 2007.

, Catharine H. Roehrig, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, USA, 2005, pp. 356.

I have always extolled the virtues of the catalogues that accompany major Egyptian exhibitions, and this volume is no exception.

It is much more than just a catalogue of the current exhibition now showing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which features objects loaned from Egyptian collections all around the world as well as many objects from the Metropolitan's own substantial collection.

The objects, ranging from small faience figures to huge granite statues, are all superbly illustrated and described in detail. This catalogue of the exhibits forms the core of the book, as would be expected, but they are put into their historical and artistic perspective...

Ancient Egypt Magazine, UK, Issue 37, August / September 2006.