Egyptian-Spanish mission discovers flowers funerary items in Djehuty tomb

Egypt State Information Service ^ | Thursday, March 22, 2007 | unattributed

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"An Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission discovered Wednesday 21/3/2007 instruments, used in the funeral of Queen Hatshepsut (1502-1482 BC)'s chief of works in Thebes Djehuty, in Djehuty's tomb in Dar-Abul-Naga area in Luxor's West Bank," Al-Ahram reported... Jose Gallan, head of the Spanish team said that during excavation works at the tomb's open court, a moderate wooden sarcophagus was found inside a small pit. It includes the bones of an unidentified woman that can be dated to the New Kingdom era. Early studies on the bones reveal that they may go back to 500 years before the construction of Djehuty's tomb. Gallan pointed out that neighboring the sarcophagus, the team also uncovered two burial sites filled with a number of 18th dynasty clay pots.

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This story is semi-coherent.

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[NYer]

This story is semi-coherent.

And the title is not much better. Thanks for the ping.

[Continental Soldier]

There is really nothing new about flowers found in a tomb. Many, many years earlier, Neanderthal burials were found with flowers and the remains of flowers. I realize that the Egyptian ministry wants to claim that everything that ever happened, happened first in Egypt. But that is not the case.

[SunkenCiv]

I'll be more interested when there are coherent details (perhaps on the Archaeology Institute of America website), because the sequence may be clarified, or at least muddled in a comprehensible way. :')

[Sam Ketcham]

Thanks for the ping. As others posted, neither the story nor the title are coherent. Perhaps they found some ancient meade in the tomb as well.

[SunkenCiv]

Djehuty ya think wrote it? ;') I think it's a language barrier problem.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's a better article, source of the other one, and it has a picture:

Say it with flowers
by Nevine El-Aref
Al-Ahram Weekly
29 March - 4 April 2007

The discovery in 2003 of the tomb of Djehuty, overseer of works at Thebes during Queen Hatshepsut's reign, amazed Egyptologists and historians not only because of its distinguished and uncommon architectural design and decorative scenes, but also for the artefacts found within its corridors -- objects from different dynasties piled in the tomb to form a haphazard treasury... This week after six consecutive concessions, the mission has unearthed instruments used at the funeral inside the tomb that add emphasis to the importance of Djehuty's position. While cleaning the debris in the tomb's open courtyard archaeologists found a 70cm-deep pit containing 42 clay vases and 42 flower bouquets... Neighbouring the pit, Galàn continued, an unidentified, Middle-Kingdom wooden coffin was unearthed. Early studies on this reveal that it belonged to a middle-class woman who was buried with just a faience necklace. Preliminary studies on the bones found inside the coffin revealed that it predated the construction of Djehuty's tomb by 500 years... While work was in progress around Djehuty's tomb, another tomb dating from the beginning of the 18th Dynasty was unearthed. It belongs to a man named Hery who was the supervisor of the Treasury of Queen Iya-Hutep, the mother of Ahmose I, who died in the reign of Amenhotep I. Up to now only a 25-sq-m base of a pyramidion has been found at Hery's tomb, which, he explained was the superstructure of the tomb.

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Lovely!

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LOL!