New 4,400 year old tomb discovered in Egypt is "exceptionally well preserved"
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https://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article223152200.html
SAQQARA, EGYPT -- Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery of a private tomb belonging to a senior official from the 5th dynasty of the pharaohs, which ruled roughly 4,400 years
ago.
Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani announced the find at the site of the tomb in Saqqara, just west of Cairo, which is also home to the famed Step Pyramid. He said drawings on the
tomb's walls were "exceptionally well-preserved." The drawings depicted the official and his family, he added.
The tomb also contained a total of 45 statues carved in rock. Again, they depict the official and his family.
In recent years, Egypt has heavily promoted new archaeological finds to international media and diplomats in the hope of attracting more tourists to the country. The vital tourism
sector has suffered from the years of political turmoil and violence that followed a 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
man anytime I see these articles it just makes me really want to go play Pharaoh. It's so cool we're still able to find new discoveries
Really makes you just sort of stop and wonder how much history is lying beneath us, undiscovered. How much have we not found in areas that seem scrubbed entirely, and what can be learned from what is there? I'm no big history sort of person, but this sort of stuff does pique some thoughts in my head that aren't normally there.
That's why I metal detect. Can find anything anywhere. Went to local frisbee park in the middle of the town and somehow uncovered a 400 year old coin there.
Note quite as impressive but I once found a €2 coin
Unlikely to happen in Egypt seeing as the government there knows how valuable tourism is to their economy so security would be really tight, attacking those sites is far too risky with almost no benefit to extremists. You only really see things like that happen in places with little to no military or security forces.
Or you have situations like Syria where the civil war has destroyed countless sites of interest because.
Hey that 400 year old coin is no longer legal tender, but you made out with €2
Curious to how a completely sealed off tomb could get that much deterioration in the art and stonework.
Give it some time and it'll eventually be a 400 year old coin.
Idiotic?
Things like that still happen, though probably not in Egypt specifically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_by_ISIL
Would be ultra interesting to see what all the glyphs' translate to, given how much of it is about him and his family I'd bet money on a lot of it detailing his life.
My guess is probably from earthquakes but other than that, im not exactly sure
I wonder how long before some white couple has sex there...?
In most egyptian tombs it's always about the history of the dude who was buried there, plus details of their descent into the duat and scenes from the book of the dead.
Man, finds like these are amazing!
Hopefully we can learn a little more about the high-ranking members of the fifth dynasty with this find.
WE should honestly put effort towards recreating destroyed sites. The pleasure of showing the remaining surviving fuckers that they did absolutely nothing to the spirit of human civilization would be enough on its own. But we owe it to the future to restore/recreate these sites.
Imagine all the new mummy curses we can discover.
Yeah but ISIL was a genocidal regime whose legitimacy, like all of them, relied on reconstructing a version of the past which gives their narrow, specifically, imagined political community a fake and equally narrow historicity. It was a specific organisation, like the Taliban, that needs a specific kind of cultural hegemony to survive. Give Arabs some credit: they live around and inside of the rich historical world of the Mediterranean as much as anybody else and they're the ones preserving and studying these for the most part. Plus, Europeans know well that half the churches, cathedrals, streets, foundations were half built by tearing down Roman edifices and constantly repurposing earlier historic materials. Consider that Palmyra survived as long as it did.
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