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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Any way to tell if they’ve been vaxxed?
I was thinking more along the lines of. “Leslie Stahl Reloaded.*
Yes. As it should be.
So serious. I was just inserting the requested Las Vegas joke. I happen to agree with you, at least as far as ownership rights. But to not let it tour, like Tutankhamen, would deny many a historical and cultural experience they might not get a chance to otherwise. I mean, hell, even Steve Martin made a hit song about it. Now, it’s like ho hum, another relic. Not to be heard about in a mass medium except maybe Art Bell.
They keep finding mummies but where are the dummies?
The daddies?
The Egyptian harems used to complain, “they Horus out around here”.
“We be lookin’ fo Amun around here!”.............
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