Ancient Egyptian pharaoh moved another ruler's body and stole his tomb, hundreds of funerary figurines suggest

Live Science ^ | November 24, 2025 | Owen Jarus

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 225 shabtis -- figurines meant to act as servants for the deceased in the afterlife -- that belonged to the pharaoh Shoshenq III inside a tomb of a different pharaoh.

The figurines were found at the site of Tanis, in northern Egypt, in the northern chamber of the tomb of Osorkon II, near an unmarked sarcophagus. Hieroglyphs on the shabtis allowed the team to identify who they belonged to.

Although the tomb and sarcophagus were discovered in 1939, the shabtis were recently found by an Egyptian-French team that is conducting conservation work, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a translated statement. The team also uncovered new inscriptions that they are in the process of deciphering and analyzing...

The discovery of the shabtis, which are made of faience (glazed ceramic), inside Osorkon II's tomb indicates that Shoshenq III was not buried in his tomb but rather in an unmarked sarcophagus in the tomb of Osorkon II. Researchers have long known about this tomb, but they didn't know that Shoshenq III was buried there...

Some of the artifacts in Shoshenq III's tomb carry the name of Shoshenq IV, who ruled during the following 23rd dynasty, said Aidan Dodson, an Egyptology professor at the University of Bristol in the U.K who was not involved with the research...

In ancient Egypt, it wasn't unusual for tombs to be reused. However, why Shoshenq IV might have reused the tomb of Shoshenq III and moved him to the tomb of Osorkon II is unclear.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 22ndynasty; 23rddynasty; catastrophism; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; latekingdom; osorkonii; shabtis; shoshenqiii; shoshenqiv; tanis

[SunkenCiv]

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  • 80. Sosenk, the Pharaoh of the Libyan dynasty, was not Shishak of the Scriptures.
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[Seruzawa]

Iirc the Pharaohs falsely claimed having built the things.

[SunkenCiv]

It would be hilarious to have one of those carved on a big stone in hieroglyphs, and bury it somewhere in Egypt.

[SunkenCiv]

IOW, your post is nonsense.

[telescope115]

Some indie should make a movie about this, The Shoshenq Redemption

Ha! Ya beat me to it!😁

[BradyLS]

:-D

[telescope115]

I’m a little confused- shabti…ushabti….shawabti…

I remember the shawabti figures from the King Tut exhibit back in the 70s, what is the difference in names, the time periods?

[Larry Lucido]

[tumblindice]

She must have been a combination of Sydney Sweeney and Scarlett Johannson.

Cleopatra, when sex was still new to her,
Kept buying young slaves to tutor her.
But the Pharaoh (her Dad)
Afraid she’d go bad
Kept rendering them neuterer and neuterer.
heh
Make history come alive, heh heh I am the great Cornholio!

[Ezekiel]

"The Shoshenq Redemption"

Makes plain sense.

After all,

how often do you look at a man's shoshë?

😇

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

However, why Shoshenq IV might have reused the tomb of Shoshenq III and moved him to the tomb of Osorkon II is unclear.

I am going to guess, Daddy Issues.

[Berosus]

Having a set of ushabtis in someone else’s tomb shouldn’t be a surprise for this tomb complex. Consider what was buried with Psusennes I. SunkenCiv will remember this was mentioned in Dr. Verlikovsky’s “Peoples of the Sea”:

Psusennes’ silver coffin was in a granite sarcophagus belonging to the XIX dynasty’s Merneptah, while another sarcophagus came from a Middle Kingdom tomb; each of the canopic jars had somebody else’s name on it. Finally, David Rohl suggested that a lapis lazuli necklace on Psusennes was originally a gift from the Assyrians to Amenhotep III. It seems none of these kings believed in using a new tomb item, if an old tomb item could be reused.

[Seruzawa]

It is pretty difficult to pretend that a pseudoscience is a real science. It must be exhausting for you.

[SunkenCiv]

https://search.brave.com/search?q=shawabti&summary=1