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Sarcophagus dedicated to sky god among latest ancient Egypt trove |
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A picture taken on January 30, 2020, shows limestone sarcophagi discovered among many archeological finds in 3000-year-old communal tombs dedicated to high priests, in Al-Ghoreifa in Tuna al-Jabal in the Minya governorate. The archaeological mission in Al-Ghoreifa in Minya, about 300 kilometres south of Egypt's capital Cairo, found 16 tombs filled with 20 sarchophagi, including a wooden sarcophagus of the sky God Horus, the Antiquities Ministry announced. The communal tombs dating back to around 2600 BC were dedicated to high priests of the god Djehuty and senior officials in Upper Egypt. Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP.
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MINYA.- Egypt's antiquities ministry on Thursday unveiled the tombs of ancient high priests and a sarcophagus dedicated to the sky god Horus at an archaeological site in Minya governorate.
The mission found 16 tombs containing 20 sarcophagi, some engraved with hieroglyphics, at the Al-Ghoreifa site, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) south of Cairo.
The shared tombs were dedicated to high priests of the god Djehuty and senior officials, from the Late Period around 3,000 years ago, the ministry said.
They were from the 15th nome, an ancient Egyptian territorial division ruled over by a provincial governor.
One of the stone sarcophagi was dedicated to the god Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, and features a depiction of the goddess Nut spreading her wings.
The ministry also unveiled 10,000 blue and green ushabti (funerary figurines), 700 amulets -- including some made of pure gold -- bearing scarab shapes, and one bearing the figure of a winged cobra.
Painted limestone canopic jars, which the ancient Egyptians used to store the entrails of their mummified dead, were also unearthed.
Egypt has in recent years sought to promote archaeological discoveries across the country in a bid to revive tourism, which took a hit from the turmoil that followed its 2011 uprising.
© Agence France-Presse
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