Editing Persian Princess (section)

==Discovery==
The mummy was found on 19 October 2000. During a murder investigation{{Which|date=November 2024}}, Pakistani authorities were alerted to a videotape recorded by Ali Aqbar, in which he claimed to have a mummy for sale. When questioned by the police, Aqbar told them where the mummy was located; at the house of tribal leader Wali Mohammed Reeki in [[Kharan, Pakistan|Kharan]], Baluchistan near the border of [[Afghanistan]]. Reeki claimed he had received the mummy from an [[Iran]]ian named Sharif Shah Bakhi, who had said that he had found it after an earthquake near [[Quetta]]. The mummy had been put up for sale in the [[black antiquities]] market for 600 million [[Pakistani rupee|rupee]]s, the equivalent of $11 million. Reeki and Aqbar were accused of violating the country's Antiquities Act, a charge which carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.<ref name=archaeology>{{cite journal |last1= Romey |first1= Kristin M. |last2= Rose |first2= Mark |date=January–February 2001 |url= http://www.archaeology.org/0101/etc/persia.html |title= Special Report: Saga of the Persian Princess |journal= Archaeology |volume= 54 |issue= 1 |publisher= Archaeological Institute of America}}</ref>