Egypt still has surprises in store for us in its basement. In February, the “remarkable” discovery of the tomb of Thoutmôsis II made the headlines around the world. Recently, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that three tombs of statesmen were uncovered in Luxor.
Better still, thanks to the inscriptions that have survived the test of time, we know the names of the three men buried there over 3000 years ago. So we have before us:
- Baki (18th dynasty): an attic supervisor according to the Egyptian ministry.
- ES (18th dynasty): a man who would have occupied (or accumulated) several jobs. Indeed, he would have been a supervisor at the Temple of Amon, that which is considered to be “the king of the gods”, mayor of the northern oases and scribe.
- AMUM-EM-IPET (19th dynasty): which had to work in the temple or the Domaine d'Amon.
In addition to the inscriptions to identify the three men who occupied the tombs, the Egyptian archaeologists also uncovered many artifacts with which Baki, ES and Faux-Em-ipet were buried there are several millennia as shown in the instagram post of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
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Will we have one day discovered all the burials of Egypt?
If the royal tombs necessarily make the headlines and attract all the light to them as they can be impressive from the point of view of architecture, but also of the illustrious person who occupies it, there are still many places that have not been searched in the land of the Pharaohs.
Each year, many tombs are uncovered and if they do not highlight a known or forgotten historical figure, like Thoutmôsis II for example, they allow you to get an increasingly precise idea of what life looked like there are thousands and thousands of years on the other side of the Mediterranean.
One of the still very engaging mysteries of our era remains the one that takes shape around the tomb of Cleopatra. Unwitting, we think we drowned in the Mediterranean when others still hope to be able to get their hands on the land.
There is a possibility for one day, we end up finding all the burials of Egypt that it would be possible for us to discover. Just as, it would also be possible that climate change and the rise in sea level made us lose these precious vestiges forever.
Source : Cnn
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