Khenout
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Khenut () was the queen consort of Egypt as the wife of King Unas. She lived during the time of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. She was a suspected mother of Queen Iput.
Key facts
- Royalty.consort
- yes
- Royalty.name
- Khenut
- Royalty.succession
- Queen consort of Egypt
- Royalty.reign
- c. 2360 BC
- Royalty.spouse
- Unas
- Royalty.regent
- Unas
- Royalty.reg type
- King
- Royalty.burial_place
- Badrshein, Giza, Egypt
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Khenut () was the queen consort of Egypt as the wife of King Unas. She lived during the time of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. She was a suspected mother of Queen Iput.
==Burial== Khenut was buried in a double mastaba with another queen named Nebet next to the Pyramid of Unas in Saqqara. The mastaba was excavated by Peter Munro.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khenout” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.