La Prensa
Posted on 01/04/2023 9:46:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A group of Egyptologists from Spain have discovered two tombs that housed almost 60 mummies at site in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor.
“The most important thing this year is the discovery of two tombs, almost six meters deep,” made up of “two chambers each and housing around 60 mummies and remains of mummies,” Francisco J. Martin, the president of the Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project, told EFE.
Martín, who leads a team of 22 Spanish Egyptologists and eight Egyptian experts, said the tombs were dated after Vizier Amenhotep-Huy’s tomb (18th dynasty).
The site is a rich example of the architectural style and “evidence that the vizier’s tomb at some point became a necropolis,” the expert added.
The two secondary tombs are connected via two burial chambers and are characterized by a lack of epigraphs that were found in Vizier Amenhotep Huy’s tomb, which is a chapel that contains 30 columns with epigraphs, according to Martín...
Amenhotep Huy was vizier to pharaoh Amenhotep III during the last third of his reign.
He was originally from northern Egypt and was considered the “opposition leader” amid new religious trends promoted by Akhenaten, the Pharaoh’s son and heir.
“He is a very important person,” Martín added...
Because the bodies were mummified, experts can be sure they belonged to “higher social classes,” according to Bedman.
Once the vizier died and was martyred, his burial site became a prestigious one where many others wanted to be buried: “a necropolis inside the vizier’s tomb,” Bedman added.
The Spanish mission has launched an exhibition of the contents of the vizier’s necropolis with the Luxor museum which will continue into 2023.
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As old as Egypt is, I imagine it is difficult to dig anywhere without digging up a mummy...............
Cool!
60 Mummies?
Why that’s an entire Horus worth of mummies............
Or sixty. :^)
60 mummies? Hey, I have an idea for a Sunday night Egyptology TV show.
Recall reading of massive cemeteries, drifts of mummies - many used to fuel early railroad locomotives as the flammable resins provided some goodly BTU’s. You only read about the mummies of the elite - the working classes were wrapped and stacked like cordwood. And then used like cordwood.
[Insert Las Vegas joke here.]
It’s where the Chinese are burying the overflow from their crematoriums. //sarc
You could title it, “Who’s Your Mummy?”
A lot of weird things were done with mummies by the West when we discovered Egypt. Lots of wonder elixers included Mummy dust.
60 mummies- sounds like a good name for a rock band- Very cool find- Always neat to see the past discovered-
Those Spanish Egyptologists need to take precautions; lest they forget the curse of Pharaoh Tutankamun.
As legend has it, there is an ancient curse associated with the mummies and the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs.
Disturbing these embalmed remains has been said to bring bad luck, illness and death!
Noticed that the Spaniard led mission is displaying the contents in the Luxor Museum. I guess what happens in Egypt, stays in Egypt these days.
Yuck
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