Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This golden throne is a modern reconstruction of a royal chair found in a secret burial chamber at Giza in 1925, believed to belong to Queen Hetepheres, mother of Pharaoh Khufu. Using archaeological drawings and advanced technology, the museum recreated this intricate piece with gilding, faience inlays, and symbolic motifs. This highlight is featured in the "Egypt Eternal" tour led by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East director Peter Der Manuelian. He says, "We made a computer model of this chair and then put it all together and fabricated the actual thing using computer carving tools, a CNC router machine, real gilding, and real faience tiles to put the whole thing together into this display."
Recorded: 2025
This golden throne is a modern reconstruction of a royal chair found in a secret burial chamber at Giza in 1925, believed to belong to Queen Hetepheres, mother of Pharaoh Khufu. Using archaeological drawings and advanced technology, the museum recreated this intricate piece with gilding, faience inlays, and symbolic motifs. This highlight is featured in the "Egypt Eternal" tour led by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East director Peter Der Manuelian. He says, "We made a computer model of this chair and then put it all together and fabricated the actual thing using computer carving tools, a CNC router machine, real gilding, and real faience tiles to put the whole thing together into this display."
Recorded: 2025
