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  • 17 dynasty mummy in coffin discovered at Draa Abul Naga necropolis in Luxor

    04/30/2020 6:44:16 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    Ahram Online ^ | Friday, April 24, 2020 | Nevine El-Aref
    A 17th dynasty anthropoid coffin containing a mummy, along with a mud-brick offering chapel and a pile of mixed materials from funerary equipment, have been unearthed by a Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission in Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor's West Bank. The director of the mission, José Galán, explained that these objects were unearthed during excavation work carried out in the area located in front of the open courtyard of Djehuty's tomb (TT 11). The coffin was carefully placed on the ground horizontally. It measures 1.75 by 0.33m, and was carved in wood cut from a single sycamore tree trunk, then...
  • King of the Wild Frontier (Hyksos art and architecture in the Sinai)

    08/15/2005 7:33:49 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 1,093+ views
    Al-Ahram Weekly ^ | 2005 | Nevine El-Aref
    A team of archaeologists digging at Tel-Habuwa, near the town of Qantara East and three kilometres east of the Suez Canal... chanced upon a cachet of limestone reliefs bearing names of two royal personalities and two seated statues of differing sizes. The larger statue is made of limestone and belongs to a yet unidentified personage, but from its size and features archaeologists believe that it could be a statue of Horus, the god of the city. In 2001 archaeologists unearthed remains of a mud-brick temple dedicated to this deity. The second is a headless limestone statue inscribed on the back...