A screan breaks the sunny silence of the plane in Giza. A photograoher from the expedition of the american Egyptologist George Reisner waves his arms trying to call his colleagues, who were working in other places in the plane, and who come immediately and begin to dig.
They so discover a rectangular trench full of small blocks of limestone from Tura, which hide a staircase of twelve steps that continues in a tunnel which ends in a pit blocked by other stones. In twelve days the workers clear the pit.
Nine meters below they find a nich where some jars are kept and the skill of a bull wrapped in a mat, certainly a ritual offer. The 7th March 1925, at twenty-five meters underground, the men of the archaeological expedition discover a small room excavated in the rock: a funreal chamber escaped from the raids by the predators, an intact place protected by the rock for tens and tens of centuries. For over twenty years George Reisner, an egyptologist from Indianapolis, and his collaborators dig in the plance in Giza, the place of eternal sleep. Up to that moment, the only chamber the american group had found intact is impy’s one, who was the director for pubblic work of Pepy’s II time. For the rest it’s all been a succession of mounds cleared, sand, earth, reocks, debris turned and overturned. Each time they find a funeral chamber the discover it sacked and empty. Maybe it’s for this that when the photographer discovers a layer of plaster he is hopeful. It’s a pity that Reisner is in America, having been called a few weeks earlier by the Harvard University. In his place to direct the work, there is Alan Rowe. Reisner is informed about the exciting discovery and immediately begins the long journey to return to the plance in Giza.
By the weak candle-light Alan Rowe, through a hole on the entrance door on the funeral chamber, sees an alabaster sarcophagus and a twinkle from some objects that form a very precious funeral trousseau on which is the pharaoh Snefru’s cartouche. Is it Cheope’s father tomb? The elements Rowe has are too few to let him support with certainty this hypothesis although in the small room a treasure of great value is found. A baldachin with the King Snefru’s name on it, a bed with a head piece, two chairs covered in gold, dold and copper vases, a beautiful sedan chair, a case in golden wood full of jewels, plates and gold cups. He photograohs, he writes down every details, but he decides no to lift the lid of the alabaster sarcophagus to leave the honor for the head of the expedition, who momentarily absent, to wait for Reisner’s arrival, who will get there at the end of July in the same years but they don't open the sarcophagus immediately. The delicate operation is prepared with great care and the works begin again only in january of the following years and in december. The news of the discovery of the secret burial has in the meantime gone around the world. The hypothesis are multiplied. Some decalre it's Snefru's  tomb, others, instead that it's has predacessor's one, king Huni or of another sovereign of the III dynasty. The moment of truth is near. At ten in the morning in Mareh 3rd 1927, Reisener and his assistants, among whom Alar Rowe, are before the alabaster sarcophagus. All eyes are fixed on the lid which is slowly lifted. When the light at the reflectors, prepared by the provident Reisenr, enlightens the inside of the sarcophagus, this is, among the surprise and general disappointment absolutely empty. On the objects of the funeral trousseau which fill the small place, is read the name of a queen: Hetepheres, whose complete title is: "Mother of the King of upper and lower Egypt, Horus's believer, governor's guide". Hetepheres is immediately identified as Snefru's wife and Cheope's mother, who was the builder of the Great Pyramid in the shadow of which the tomb just discovered is. But where is the queen's body, since in the tomb there is her funeral trouseau and even the canopy vases with her bowels? George Reisner then suggests a fantasy but suggestive hypothesis. Hetepheres maybe died after her husband and her son Cheope cared for her funeral. He had buried his mother in Dashur, near his father's two pyramids. Probably some thieves had then entered the queen's tomb and had partly sacked it. Cheope, knowing about it, had ordered to exhume his mother's mortal remains and move them to a secret burial in Giza. The queen's mummy was destroyed during the transport (or probably the thieves had already destroyed it to get the jewels among the bandages) and nobody had the courage to tell the king. In the tomb excavated in the rock in the plane in Giza only the baldachin the, bed, the chairs, the jewels and Hetepheres's alabaster sarco, phagus were moved. Somebody prefers to think that the queen still rests intact in some secret place in the desert. The elegant trousseau and the beautiful jewels remain, for Reisner's joy (and our own) to imagine the disappeared queen's featureas and life. 
 

1927 - the sarcophagus of the wife of Snefru is hoisted
 from the burrow that it brings to the funeral room.