Four pre-dynasty tombs have been uncovered at Tel Al-Farkha in the Nile Delta.
Posted on 07/07/2015 1:35:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Polish mission at Tel Al-Farkha in Daqahliyah has discovered four pre-dynastic tombs, Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty announced on Tuesday.
Eldamaty said three of the tombs are in a very poor condition and include child burials. Meanwhile the fourth tomb is in very good conservation condition and can be dated to the Naqada IIIC2 era.
The minister told Ahram Online that the tomb is a small mastaba with two chambers. The southern one was filled with 42 clay vessels, mainly beer jars, bowls as well as a collection of 26 stone vessels of different shapes and sizes. Some of them are cylinder and globular. A collection of 180 small carnelian beads is also among the deceased funerary collection. The corpse of the deceased was also unearthed in the northern chamber.
Mahmoud Afifi, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Department at the Ministry of Antiquities, pointed out that the most important discovery was the remains of a brewery with fragments of two vats surrounded with multiple clay and burned fire-dogs.
Head of the Polish mission, Marek Chlodnicki, told Ahram Online that on the eastern sand pile located on the northern and eastern sides of the Naqada III mastaba, the mission discovered the remains of two huge buildings. The first is a rectangular shaped structure, with very thick walls and a row of rooms located on the eastern side of a wide courtyard, raised in Naqada IIIA1 period.
The second is a rounded structure, located on the north-eastern slope of the sand pile, built during the second half of the First Dynasty. Chlodnicki said that the rounded structure consists of double adjacent mud-brick walls, each 95cm thick, with the interior seven metres in diameter. Close to the rounded building, a unique ceramic big stamp with hieroglyphs was discovered.
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Four pre-dynasty tombs have been uncovered at Tel Al-Farkha in the Nile Delta.
In a different dig, different team, different location:
Poles discovered a unique 6.5 thousand years old burial in Egypt
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/Data/Thumbs/_public/MTAyNHg3Njg,ramla1.jpg
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,405679,poles-discovered-a-unique-65-thousand-years-old-burial-in-egypt.html
bury me with my beer!
lol
The sleleton appears to be bent over backwards .. almost in half ... strange position, imo
Great. Something else for isis/isil/is to destroy because, well because they just don’t like history. Kind of like a Confederate Flag. Doesn’t suit your story, destroy it. See, it never existed.
Had to get him in a small, square hole...
Dug hole after drinking beer.
But they had beer. Good thing they had their priorities straight.
I can think of two possible reasons the skelly is bent like it is.
1. His death resulted from a “Here. Hold my beer.” event and it just wasn’t worth the hassle to straighten him back out for burial.
2. He was actually buried sitting down and is bent forward. This happened because he took the term “drinking hole” a bit too literally. After passing out, drunk, he got buried in a sudden sand storm and the weight of the sand smooshed him flat.
;’) Egyptian beer was more like a soup, which is a little weird, but I’m sure this crowd could get used to it. [cheering crowd noise]
;’) One of the Old Kingdom mummies under the Giza plateau (there are catacombs) was pickled to preserve the body. (’:
Hitler’s notorious Berlin Exhibition comes to mind. The Nazi upper ech’s collected some of the finest art they could find (plunder) in Europe, they had great taste, other than the whole mass-murder and genocide thing they had going. More antiquities have been plundered and sold into the world market than the jihadists have destroyed. They’ve concentrated on showing off with heavily publicized things like the Bamiyan Buddhas.
When I see discoveries like this, I wonder what we will never find because it is lying under 6 layers of buildings, ruble an sewage systems.
KV-5, largest of the tombs in the V of the Kings, was damaged by a leaking sewer pipe, which is a little amazing, really — I mean, the only reason for running water and sewage disposal in the first place is tourism. No one lives there.
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