Her power and her resources had given her great opportunities, of which she had availed herself to the full.

She had won secrets from nature in strange ways; and had even gone to the length of going down into the tomb herself, having been swathed and coffined and left as dead for a whole month.

The priests had tried to make out that the real Princess Tera had died in the experiment, and that another girl had been substituted; but she had conclusively proved their error.

All this was told in pictures of great merit.

It was probably in her time that the impulse was given in the restoring the artistic greatness of the Fourth Dynasty which had found its perfection in the days of Chufu.
"In the Chamber of the sarcophagus were pictures and writings to show that she had achieved victory over Sleep.