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4 hours agoUnbelievable finding: Egyptian archaeologists dig 20 painted sarcophagus
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Archaeologists have found more than 20 wooden coffins near Luxor in Egypt, broadcast the BBC. The sarcophages, with patterns still visible, were discovered in the Assif necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile River. They were arranged in two lines, one over the other. The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry has called this discovery “one [...]
The sarcophages, with patterns still visible, were discovered in the Assif necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile River. They were arranged in two lines, one over the other.
The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry has called this discovery “one of the largest and most important” in recent years.
Most of Asasif's tombs in the necropolis date from the late 664 period 332 B.C.E.) of ancient Egypt.
However, there are also coffins from the early 18th dynasty (1550 ʹ 1229 B.C.E.), which belonged to famous pharaohs such as Hatsheps, Amenhotep III, and Tutankham.
The Ministry of Antiquities announced last week that archaeologists had discovered an ancient subx0 industrial zone” in the western Luxor Valley that housed “targets for preserving and cleaning funeral equipment, with many ceramics of the 18th-x3> dynasty.
The ministry will issue more details about this extraordinary discovery at a press conference Saturday.
