One of *those* topics.
Posted on 03/19/2025 12:14:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the royal tomb of an unknown king...
The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities wrote in a statement. The burial chamber was originally about 16 feet (5 m) high.
The king's reign dates to the "Second Intermediate Period" (circa 1640 to 1540 B.C.), when northern Egypt was ruled by a group called the Hyksos and the southern part of Egypt was controlled by multiple Egyptian kings...
The grave robbers sacked the tomb, and didn't leave any remains of the king's mummy or sarcophagus behind...
In February 2025, another group of archaeologists reported that they had found the tomb of Thutmose II to the west of the Valley of the Kings. Pharaoh Thutmose II was the half brother and husband of Hatshepsut. Queen Hatshepsut ascended the throne after Thutmose II's death about 3,500 years ago...
In addition to the newly discovered tomb, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a pottery and glass workshop at Banawit, a village located north of Abydos. The workshop dates to a time when the Roman Empire controlled Egypt (30 B.C to A.D. 642), the ministry said in the statement. It contains a large number of kilns along with extensive storage areas.
Within the workshop, archaeologists found 32 ostraca — writing on pottery shards — that discuss commercial transactions and how taxes were paid, the ministry reported. The ostraca were written in Greek and Demotic, an Egyptian script.
Between the seventh and 14th centuries A.D., the workshop was reused as a cemetery, and the remains of families were found within it.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
[snip] The archaeologists analyzed damaged hieroglyphs on a canopic chest found inside the tomb. The name of the royal heiress, Princess Hatshepsut, was deciphered after a scanner carefully read and analyzed a series of hieroglyphics that had been damaged by the erosion of time, revealing her name for the first time.
"This is a revelation. There are no records of this newly discovered Princess Hatshepsut yet she was important enough to have been buried in her own pyramid," the narrator says.
Princess Hatshepsut is different from the famous Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the 18th Dynasty, who was the architect of the famous temple near the Valley of the Kings. The newly discovered Princess Hatshepsut dates back to the early 13th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. [/snip]The mystery of Princess Hatshepsut: Burial of unknown Egyptian royal uncovers ancient crime scene | The Jerusalem Post | Staff | February 10, 2025
Maybe it was Kiljoy...
Do you mean ‘Kilroy’?
Am I correct in assuming this tomb is on the same site, where the tomb of Seneb-Kay, a previously unknown pharaoh, was discovered in 2014?
Shelley could write a poem and call it “Untitled”.
“Shelley could write a poem and call it “Untitled”.”
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😁 I see what you did there.
It was Idontknowtep..................
let me just blow away some of this space dust. Oh, it’s Kong.
Well, you would, eh?
PBS and I get along famously here in the afterlife ...he gave me a lot more press coverage than that stone mason who charged me a friggin’ fortune! 😉
I was thinking Hunosetep, but yours works too
From what I heard, "a Pharoah arose who knew not Joseph" was when the Hyksos were overthrown and another dynasty began.
Didn’t they check the toe tag or his underwear waist band to see if his mummy sewed his name in it?
A bit too early for the Pharoah of the Exodus, no?
“It’s Unk...Unk... There’s no name on the grave...
What happened to the guard?
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