Archaeologists Find Huge Tomb of Unknown Pharaoh in Egypt {Abydos Dynasty - 1650 BC}

New York Times ^ | March 27, 2025 | Alan Yuhas

[Cronos]

Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an unknown pharaoh at an Egyptian necropolis, a team of researchers said on Thursday, in the second discovery of a king’s tomb this year.

The team of Egyptian and American archaeologists found the tomb, which the researchers estimate is 3,600 years old, nearly 23 feet underground at Abydos, one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. The city, about 300 miles south of Cairo, was a burial place for early pharaohs, and a necropolis developed at Anubis Mountain to the city’s south.

Researchers uncovered the tomb at the mountain, at the base of a high desert cliff where strong winds carry gusts of sand. In some places around the necropolis, sand has buried structures more than 16 or 19 feet deep.

The burial chamber features a decorated entryway, several rooms and soaring 16-foot vaults made of mud bricks. It dwarfs a tomb unearthed at Abydos over a decade ago, which was hailed at the time as the first material proof of a “lost” dynasty of kings there.

...“This tomb and Seneb-Kay’s tomb are the earliest surviving royal tombs that actually have painted decorations inside,” Mr. Wegner said.

...Mr. Wegner, noting that Seneb-Kay’s skeleton suggested that he may have died in combat, said the period appeared to be “a phase of warrior pharaohs fighting it out.”

But the new findings suggested, he added, that the Abydos dynasty was not “a kind of flash in the pan where you’ve got a handful of kings breaking off from whatever original territory they belonged to.”

[Cronos]

Pharaoh Woseribre Senebkay, who lived during the later part of Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1650–1550 BCE), is now the earliest Egyptian pharaoh whose remains show he died in battle. Detailed analysis by Dr. Maria Rosado and Dr. Jane Hill of Rowan University has documented an extensive array of wounds on Senebkay’s skeleton showing he died aged 35-40 years old during a vicious assault from multiple assailants. The king’s skeleton has an astounding eighteen wounds that penetrated to the bone. The trauma includes major cuts to his feet, ankles, knees, hands, and lower back. Three major blows to Senebkay’s skull preserve the distinctive size and curvature of battle axes used during Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period. This evidence indicates the king died violently during a military confrontation, or in an ambush

The patterns of wounds to Senebkay’s body suggest he was attacked while in an elevated position relative to his assailants, quite possibly mounted on horseback. Another surprising result of the osteological analysis is that muscle attachments on Senebkay’s femurs and pelvis indicate he spent a significant amount of his adult life as a horse rider

Another king’s body discovered this year in a tomb close to that of Senebkay also shows evidence for horse riding, suggesting these Second Intermediate Period kings buried at Abydos were accomplished horsemen. Senebkay and other royal remains at Abydos provide valuable new insight into the early introduction of the horse (Equus ferus caballus) to Egypt. Although use of horseback riding in warfare was not common until after the Bronze Age, the Egyptians appear to have been mastering the use of horses during the Second Intermediate Period. Horseback riding may have played a growing role in military movements during this era, even before the full advent of chariot technology in Egypt, which occurred slightly later, at the beginning of Egypt’s New Kingdom (ca. 1550 BCE).

More on the violent death of Pharaoh Senebkay

[Magnum44]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

”… extensive array of wounds on Senebkay’s skeleton showing he died aged 35-40 years old during a vicious assault from multiple assailants. The king’s skeleton has an astounding eighteen wounds that penetrated to the bone. The trauma includes major cuts to his feet, ankles, knees, hands, and lower back. ”

And he didn’t even own a Tesla.

[BenLurkin]

[Magnum44]

[jerod]

Unknown? Well... Somebody raided it, so it wasn’t completely ‘unknown’.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m sorry...That’s only an artists rendition. It means little to nothing. Give the same bones to several...and see what you come up with...lol...some probably...not even close.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Fame is so fleeting, even for big pyramid holders.

[BenLurkin]

Gotta remain calm...

[cuz1961]

ca. 1650–1550 BCE

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BCE

=

academic code for

we hate Jesus

and want our pagan stone and wood idol worshiping cho mo world back.

” its for the children “

spit

[twister881]

One section of the hieroglyphics has been interpreted as “Send more Chuck Berry.”
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[Mount Athos]

You can make their heads explode by calling it “Christian era” and “before christian era”.

[jerod]

They keep searching for the next Tutankhamun tomb... It’s not likely to ever happen.

Everybody associated with that burial likely died and Howard Carter lucked out big time. The reasoning? They didn’t comeback for the loot...

If I buried some rich dude with piles of gold and treasure... The last thing I’m going to do is just leave it there to rot with their corpse. I’m going back to get it and many of these tombs were raided shortly after the burial rights were given. Tutankhamun’s was left untouched, so the multitude of workers who were involved in his burial rights must have died somehow in some kind of cataclysm or war, because none of them came back to get that loot.

[SunkenCiv]

A bunch of keywords (2ip, 2ndip, 13th/14th/15th/16th/17th dynasty, Abydos dynasty, a couple others) sorted, duplicates out, shazam!

• 'Not enough survives to read the king's name': Tomb discovered of unknown ancient Egyptian pharaoh [03/19/2025]

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[Karoo]

thx

[miliantnutcase]

If his DNA gets analyzed he will probably be a Western Euro haplogroup like the others.

[PIF]

There maybe as many as 7 kings buried in deep shafts under or near the funaraly temples on the Giza plateau. But they are safe because to explore them would break the paradigm begun by Herodotus in 500 BC and still unchanged on which modern Egypt basis its entire historical existence.

[Verginius Rufus]

Did the artist just assume that the pharaoh had to be black because he was Egyptian?

Maybe they can get some DNA which would reveal the person's skin color.

[jimtorr]

........BCE ....academic code for we hate Jesus........

I've got news for you. CE and BCE are still based on the commonly accepted date of the birth of Jesus. CE (Common Era) is just a way to make it more acceptable for non-christians to use the dating system.

[cuz1961]

make it more acceptable for non-christians

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. ya?

well ive got news for you

cuz they hate Jesus

you just prove my point

’ more acceptable “

” kinda pregnant”

” honest prog “

pfft ... its either acceptable or not .... weasel parsing imo . . . . .