Archaeologists find Ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to "Commander of Foreign Mercenaries"

HeritageDaily ^ | July 26, 2022 | Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University

[SunkenCiv]

A team of archaeologists from the Czech institute of Egyptology have unearthed a tomb in the Abusir necropolis, near to modern-day Cairo, Egypt. The tomb belongs to an Egyptian dignitary named Wahibre-mery-Neith, who lived during the 26th or 27th Dynasty (5th century BC)...

The site was first excavated in 2021, where archaeologists found the largest ancient embalming cache in Egypt, containing 370 pottery storage jars that held materials used in the mummification of Wahibre-mery-Neith...

At the bottom of the shaft the researchers found a double sarcophagus situated directly on a filling of sand, but discovered that the tomb had already been robbed in late antiquity during the 4th to 5th century AD (indicated by two early Coptic vessels found in the main shaft).

The outer sarcophagus is made of two massive blocks of white limestone that contains an inner sarcophagus made of basalt and is inscribed with the Book of the Dead, chapter 72...

The space inside the inner basalt sarcophagus was found almost completely empty, except for a finely carved but uninscribed heart scarab, and an amulet in a shape of a headrest.

At the east of the shaft, several items were excavated intact and in situ: two wooden boxes with altogether 402 faience shabtis, a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices intended to act as servants or minions for the deceased.

The team also found two uninscribed alabaster canopic jars, a faience model of an offering table, ten model cups and a limestone ostracon inscribed with religious texts written in black ink and hieratic script...

[SunkenCiv]

Fig_5: View of the partly destroyed inner sarcophagus decorated with the Book of the Dead chapter 72.

Photo: Petr Košárek; archives of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University.

[SunkenCiv]

One of *those* topics.

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[laplata]

That looks like an ancient CT scanner.

[NavyShoe]

So they didn’t find $hit.

[dfwgator]

Was Geraldo there?

[fella]

The precision of the stone cuts look like something out of a machine shop.

[octex]

Looks like a toilet seat.

[Mark17]

That looks like an ancient CT scanner.

Maybe that’s where the idea came from. 🤗🤭

[Mark17]

Looks like a toilet seat.

For a giant? (Genesis 6?) 😀🤭😂

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SunkenCiv]

That’s probably how the giants got, uh, wiped out...

[SunkenCiv]

• The Assyrian Conquest: The First Greeks in Egypt [Immanuel Velikovsky]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cue up “King Tut.”

[laplata]

🤗

[laplata]

Lol

[Mark17]

That’s probably how the giants got, uh, wiped out...

LOL. Sounds about as good as any. 👍

[GingisK]

Now that is just cool! I love these finds on ancient stuff.

[GingisK]

It appears that the end of the sarcophagus was broken off with hammer blows. Rock usually cleaves straight and clean.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks, SunkenCiv.