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'We have discovered more than a thousand burial sites before in Luxor, but this is the first time we find one from the 13th Dynasty,' Yaseen said. 'The discovery is the first of its kind,' Waziry said in a posting on Instagram.ĭiscoveries at the site included a pink granite sarcophagus weighing about 11 tons, inscribed with the name of a minister named Ankho, who lived during the reign of King Sobekhotep II during the 13th Dynasty, Fathy Yaseen, director general of antiquities of Upper Egypt, told CBS News about the site. The uncovering of the burial site, found at the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis (or cemetery) on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Luxor, is the first found from the ancient Egyptian Thirteenth Dynasty, which dates back beyond 1780 B.C., according to Mostafa Waziry, an Egyptologist and the secretary-general of the supreme council of antiquities at the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Ancient Egyptian family plot foundĪrchaeologists also disclosed several recent discoveries about 400 miles to the south – including a family burial plot dating back about 4,000 years. The new discoveries were found beneath an ancient stone enclosure known as Gisr el-Mudir. ‘‘I put my head inside to see what was inside the sarcophagus: A beautiful mummy of a man completely covered in layers of gold,’' Hawass told The Associated Press.Īn Egyptian antiquities worker watches a recently discovered artifact at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo on Thursday. to 2100 B.C., in the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, is part of a yearlong excavation near the Saqqara pyramids. The mummy, 'found inside covered with gold leaf … may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date,' he said. Among the findings: a mummy belonging to a man called Heka-shepes sealed in a large rectangular limestone sarcophagus about 4,300 years ago, Zahi Hawass, director of the excavation, said in a post on Instagram. Egyptian archaeologists and researchers have unveiled a treasure trove of artifacts recently, including what may be the oldest and most intact mummy ever found.Ī team of Egyptologists on Thursday announced the discovery of several ancient tombs at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside of the capital of Cairo.

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