Cairo, Mar 14 (EFE).- Archaeologists have uncovered a royal tomb in central Egypt’s Abydos necropolis, revealing new insights into the country’s ancient dynastic history, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Friday.
The tomb, found by an Egyptian-US archaeological team, is significantly larger than previously known Abydos Dynasty tombs, though the identity of its owner remains unknown, the ministry said in a statement.
It was discovered in the Mount Anubis cemetery at Abydos, located in the central province of Sohag.
The discovery offers fresh scientific evidence on the evolution of royal tombs in the Mount Anubis necropolis, which dates back to the Abydos Dynasty, a period when several kings ruled Upper Egypt between 1700 and 1600 BC, according to the statement.
Joseph Wagner, head of the Egyptian-US mission in Abydos, said the tomb was found about seven meters underground.
It consists of a limestone burial chamber originally covered with adobe vaults that originally stood approximately five meters high.
According to the expert, traces of inscriptions were found on both sides of the entrance leading to the burial chamber of the goddesses Isis and Nephthys.
Yellow bands, which once bore the king’s name in hieroglyphics, were also present, according to Wagner.
The new information provided by this find about the kings of the Abydos dynasty deepens the understanding of the “complex” political history of Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period, the ministry said.
In 2021, the same Egyptian-US mission uncovered what is believed to be the oldest known mass-production brewery in northern Abydos, dating back approximately 5,100 years. EFE
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