Archaeologists have discovered a large limestone chamber of unidentified old-ingipatic pharaoh near the Egyptian city of Abid, which dates from about 3600 years ago, from the time marked by the chaotic period in the history of Egypt.
The University Museum in Pennsylvania and Egyptian archaeologists have published the discovery of the tombs of seven meters below the ground, in the anubis of ancient necropolis. It is a second discovery of the tomb of a native pharaoh from the beginning of this year.
The grave chamber discovered in January in Abid, an important city in the old Egypt located about 10 kilometers from the Nile River, was empty, or a long time ago, the graves robbers were looted. The name of the king that was once buried inside was originally recorded in hieroglyphs in a plainted brick at the entrance to the chamber with painted scenes that show the sisters of Goddess Izid and neftid.
“The political history of that time is fascinating and not completely understood”
“His name was in the inscriptions, but did not survive the robbers of the ancient tomatoes, which are in the name of Senaiib and the age of the monument,” said in Professor of Egyptian Archeology, Pennsylvania Josef Wegner, one of the managers of the excavation.
In addition to decorated entrance, the grave chamber contained a number of other rooms covered with five meters high beams made of clay brick.
The tomb dates back from the time known as the second interaction, which lasted from 1640. BC to 1540. Pr. Kr., And bridged the age of the Middle and New Kingdom, when Egyptian pharaohs were among the most powerful people in the region.
“The political history of that time is fascinating and not fully understood, it is a kind of period ‘warring states’, which ultimately gave birth to the Egyptian New Kingdom,” Wegner said.
Tomb within a larger complex of powerful pharaoh
Among them was the ABID dynasty, which he formed a series of pharaohs who ruled part of the upper Egypt, ie the southern part of the Egyptian kingdom.
“Egypt was a split on as many rival kingdoms, including Hikes from Deltos. How to fall apart and then reunited Egypt involves important issues of social, political and technological changes,” Wegner said.
The tomb of an unidentified king was built within a larger complex of the earlier powerful pharaoh named Nefelhotep I. Her architecture shows the earlier royal graves of the Central Kingdom and the later second middle period, wegner added.
Excavations continue.
The second intermediate man began almost the entire millennium after the construction of high pyramids in Giza outside Cairo, in which the tombs of certain pharaohs of the old kingdom. Many of the new kingdom pharacium were buried in the valley of Kraljevo near Luxor, including Tutankamon, whose tomb of the 14th century before Christ revealed in 1922. Years.
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