The Al-Asasif Cachette. Intact and sealed coffins. More details to be announced on Saturday..Keep tuned #luxor #egypt #egyptology #historyofegypt #aasif #cachette #discovery #Archaeology
Ministry of Antiquities-Arab Republic of Egypt
Posted on 10/16/2019 7:49:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Egyptian government is hailing the discovery of more than 20 wooden coffins as “one of the largest and most important” archaeological finds in the past few years.
The coffins were found in Assasif, a necropolis on the west bank of the Nile River.
Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities tweeted images of the “intact and sealed coffins” Tuesday. The sarcophagi, which were stacked in two layers in a large tomb, still boasted their original carvings of faces and hands and colors of red, green, white and black that have not faded much over time...
Egyptian officials have not given the time frame from which the coffins date, but the site where they were found was once part of the ancient city of Thebes.
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The Al-Asasif Cachette. Intact and sealed coffins. More details to be announced on Saturday..Keep tuned #luxor #egypt #egyptology #historyofegypt #aasif #cachette #discovery #Archaeology
Ministry of Antiquities-Arab Republic of Egypt
Will ping the list later, thanks for the link!
It’s too bad Thebes already got there.
There were only seven against that.
I know of some old cemeteries they can dig up...
While being shot at by the land owners.
Just laying on the ground ?
Yeah, it’s funny they’d never found them before. ;^)
Yeah, it’s funny they’d never found them before. ;^)
= = =
They got some Democrats, and said go Ballot Harvesting.
People have been dying a long time over there.
Seems like every time you dug a ditch you’d find somebody’s great great etc. Grandpappy.
;^)
The “valley of the golden mummies” was discovered by a mule carrying a tourist — broke through the ceiling, no one had noticed any of it before, or at least, hadn’t for some centuries.
Broke through the ceiling? That must have been one fat ass......*ducks and runs*
Heehaw!
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