The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, downtown Cairo, chose a statue of Maya, King Tutankhamun’s nursing mother, to be the March piece, which is displayed in the museum’s main entrance hall, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8 each year, and Mother’s Day, which Egypt celebrates on March 21 each year.
The statue was built of limestone, according to the museum’s director general, Sabah Abdel-Razek, and was kept in the museum’s storeroom.
Maya, a nursing mother, is seen bearing King Tutankhamun on her legs in the statue.
The newborn monarch is wearing a necklace in the shape of a winged scarab and resting his feet on a footstool with prone prisoner figures.
She stated that this statue was discovered in the holy animal cemetery at Saqqara in 1968, and that it was most likely kept in a compartment near the Maya tomb at Saqqara before being moved to the animal cemetery, possibly during the Late Period or Ptolemaic period.
Maya’s tomb was utilised in the late times for the burial of Cats, who represented the goddess Bastet.