Roeder found the statue 150 miles south of Cairo in the Minya Governorate, near the modern-day city of El Ashmunein. In ancient times, this area along the Nile was known as Khemnu. It served as a ...

The remarkable find contained the mummified remains of Tadi Ist, the daughter of the high priest of El-Ashmunein - a town some 27 miles south of Minya. The sarcophagus presented bright and well ...