A Treasure Trove found in an Egyptian Tomb solves the longstanding mystery of who was buried there

A treasure trove of 225 burial figures was found inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nane Delta, a new discovery that experts say has solved “a long archeological mystery.”

“Finding statues in the royal area has not been possible in the Tanis Necropolis since 1946,” Archaeologist Frederic Payruudeau told reporters in Paris on Friday.

Such a discovery is also unprecedented in the south central The Egyptian valley of the kings Close to today’s situation – except for the tomb of the famous daughter of King Tutankhamun in 1922 – because most of those places have been looted throughout history, he added.

Payruudeau, who leads the Trench rider Tanis Main, said that the amazing discovery was made on the morning of October 9.

The team had already dug up one of the three corners of the small tomb busy with a magnificent sarcophagus, which was not named.

“When we saw three or four or four figures together, we knew right away that we were going to be surprised,” Paykhulaau said.

“I went out and told my colleagues and the officials. After that it was a real struggle. It was a day that was not there at the weekend – usually, we stopped: ‘This is impossible.'”

The group then set the lights to work through the night. It took 10 days to painstakingly remove all 225 small green figurines.

“They are carefully arranged in the shape of a star around the sides of the hole in a row with horizontal lines at the bottom,” Payraudeau said.

The comic figures, known as Ushabti, were intended as servants to escort the dead into harm’s way.

More than half of the images are of women, “which is very different,” Paykhulaau said.

Located in the Nile Delta, Tanis was founded around 1050 BC as the capital of the Egyptian empire during the 21 name dynasty.

At that time, the Valley of the Kings – which had been looted during the reign of Pharaohs including Ramses – was abandoned and the Royal Necropolis was moved to Tanis, Payraudeau said.

“Many Undiscovered Secrets”

A royal sign in newly discovered sources also solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the Sarcophagus. It was Pharaoh Shoshenq III, who ruled from 830 to 791 BC.

This was ‘surprising’ because the walls of a separate tomb on the site – and the largest sarcophagus there – bear his name, said Hoyrudeau.

“Why was he buried in this grave?” The technician asked.

“Obviously, with Pharaoh, building a tomb is gambling because you can never be sure that your successor will bury you there,” he said.

“Apparently, we have new evidence that these gamblers don’t always win,” Payraudeau said with a smile.

Shoshenq III’s reign was tumultuous, driven by “a very bloody conflict between Upper and Lower Egypt, and several pharaohs fighting for power,” he said.

So it is possible that the succession did not go as planned and the Pharaoh was not buried in his chosen tomb. Another possibility is that his bodies were moved later due to looting.

But “it’s hard to imagine that a 3.5-by-1.5-inch granite sarcophagus could have been restored in such a small space,” Paykhulaau said.

After the paintings are studied, they will be displayed in an Egyptian museum, Payruudeau said.

Experts in Egypt confirmed the discovery marked “A decisive step to solve a long archeological mystery,” said the Egyptian ministry of tourism and antiquities on Facebook.

In a post on Facebook, Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary general of the Supreme Archaeological Council, said that the discovery “confirms that the site of Tanis still has many undiscovered secrets.”

Mr. Mohamed Abdel-Badii, head of the Archean Archeal department, revealed that the mission also revealed previously unknown patterns in his room, which shed light on burial methods at that time.

“What is not clear is whether the king was buried directly inside the tomb of Osarkon II, or if his funeral collectors were moved to this place to prevent theft,” the ministry said in a Facebook post. “We still have a lot of work to do to answer these questions.”

The acquisition was announced just a few weeks after the official opening ceremony of $1 billion Great Egyptian museum. The GEM is one of the largest museums in the world, and the largest dedicated to a single civilization: Ancient Egypt. Its subject matter covers about 7000 years, from preIhistory to the end of Greek and Roman about 400 ad