<HTML>I know only one real examination about the Snofru remains: <p>
A.Batrawi, The Skeletal Remains from the Northern Pyramid of Sneferu; ASAE 51, 1951, pp. 435-440. <p>
I know that several other egyptologists are "of the opinion" that the remains are not from Sneferu, but I trust a detailed study more than a personal opinion.<p>
And it was much more than a heel bone: a jaw with almost all teeth, a temple bone, parts of the skullcap, the left hib, 3 ribs, 3 vertebraea, 1 fingerjoint with hide attached, 1 jump joint, 1 heel bone, two upper arm bones and a complete bandaged foot. This foot was bandaged in the OK style with singular bandages around the 4th and 5th toe, a practice never done in later times.<p>
And to Merenre: The mummy was found in the original sarkophagus, but it has not been investigated so far.<p>
To "pseudo": the word seems to have a stronger meaning in English than in German. In German "pseudo-Argument" only means an argument which is so wishi washi or off topic that it cannot be used as argument at all (It will rain tomorrow because my milk went sour...). The empty pyramids are a pseudo-argument "German style": Nobody would REALLY expect to find anything in them after millenia of plundering, when even the hidden tombs in the valley of the kings were almost complete robbed. Therefore "no mummies found -> no tomb" is a non existing argument. Sorry if the word got into the wrong throat.<p>
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