Credit : CEI RAS
Posted on 01/20/2023 10:27:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Faiyum Oasis is a depression in the desert, west of the Nile River, or just 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt.
Faiyum was known to the ancient Egyptians as the twenty-first nome of Upper Egypt, Atef-Pehu ("Northern Sycamore"). Around the Oasis are the ruins of many ancient villages, and nearbye is the Ancient Egyptian city of Crocodilopolis/Arsinoe, which was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek.
Archaeologists from CEI RAS have been excavating a necropolis at Fayoum for several years, revealing burials that date from the 4th century BC until the 7th century AD.
In recent excavations, the researchers found a burial of an 8-year-old child, placed on the remains of 142 dogs in the same grave. Zoologist, Galina Belova, has examined the dogs, concluding that they all died at the same time with no evidence of violence.
Traces of blue clay, which is common in Ancient Egyptian reservoirs, were found on the dog remains, suggesting that they may have been near a water source that flooded, causing them to drown.
As to why the child came to be in the grave is a mystery. It is possible that the child was caring for the animals, but even more confusing is that the child was found with a linen bag placed on their head.
Another burial has been previously found at the necropolis with a similar linen bag placed on the deceased's head, however, this other burial was likely executed and was found with an arrow in his chest.
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Someone liked to play fetch.
Big deal we have little old ladies in California with 142 dogs while still alive
Yep.
Those are probably jackals, (not dogs, or domesticated) Jackals of the desert were represented with the god, Anubis, the jackal-headed, so that’s weird.
Lay down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
Probably not. Dogs are easy to tell from jackals.
Lake Moeris is part of the Faiyum Oasis and is where Menes (or Narmer?) was attacked by his own dogs. He escaped on the back of a crocodile (early jetski).
Must be something about the dogs there.
In that case, the kid must laid down with fleas, which gave the embalmers this idea...
The local dog catcher killed the neighbor boy, put a bag on his head and then buried him with dead dogs.
Mom: “I loved my son with all of my heart, but you could keep his dogs. One dog? Sure. Two maybe. But 142? That’s crazy. And I’m not taking care of those filthy animals now that he’s gone. You can bury them with my son.”
Slave: “Yes, Your Highness. As you wish.”
Mostly, Egyptians were the Crazy Cat People of the ancient world, thousands of cat mummies (or fake ones, sometimes with a single body part of a cat) have been found in burials.
So now I know how I want to be buried.
“Whose head?”
The child is nonbinary?
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Mummified crocodiles provide insights into mummy-making over time
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mummified-crocodiles-insights-mummy-making.html
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