Egypt: new royal tomb discovered in Luxor

A new tomb, probably that of a royal wife of the Eighteenth Dynasty, that of akhenaten Y tutankhamun almost 3,500 years ago, was discovered in luxorthe Thebes of the pharaohsthe Egyptian authorities announced on Saturday.

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Is grave real it was discovered by Egyptian and British researchers on the west bank of the Nile, where the famous valleys of kings and queens are located, and excavations continue, he explained. Mostafa Wazirihead of Egyptian antiquities, in a statement.

“The first elements discovered so far within the grave seem to indicate that it dates from the Eighteenth Dynasty.considered as the heyday and the most prosperous period of the Ancient Egyptindicated.

To piers litherlandfrom the University of Cambridge -who leads the team of British researchers on this mission-, “this grave could be that of a wife real or a princess of the lineage of the tuthmosisof which very few have come to light.

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The inside of this grave It is “in poor condition”, with “numerous buildings and inscriptions destroyed by the floods of Antiquity, which filled the burial chambers with sandy and calcareous sediments”, added the Egyptian archaeologist Mohsen Kamel, also quoted in the statement.

Egypt has reported in recent months several important discoveries, mainly in the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo.

The country, with 104 million inhabitants and in the midst of a serious economic crisis, count on these announcements to reactivate tourism, hit hard by the covid-19 pandemic. This sector, which employs two million people and generates more than 10% of GDP, has been in decline since the Arab Spring in 2011.

Source: Elcomercio

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