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The newly discovered ancient Egyptian grave sheds light on the kings that ruled the region for more than 3600 years.
Archaeologists have discovered a huge limestone burial room, which contains multiple rooms and decorative entry, in January in Abydos, Egypt. But the intended luxury grave is still a mystery. Graverobbers hurt the hieroglyphic text drawn on the bricks at the entrance, leaving the name not readable, according to press release It was released on March 27 by the Pennsylvania Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.
The impressive grave did not contain structural residue that could help Determine its owner. However, researchers who discovered this discovery believed that it is likely to be the comfortable place of the king who ruled the supreme Egypt during the second intermediate period between 1640 and 1540 BC as part of the Abydos family, one of the least strains of ancient Egypt. King Mystery may be one of many who lack the traditional records of kings who once ruled the region.
The cemetery had three rooms in the total, with the length of the main burial room about 1.9 meters (6.2 feet) with a length of 6 meters (19.7 feet). The researchers say that the name of the unknown king was once painted on the entrance to the room (below the right). Joseph Winner/Museum Bin
“It is a kind of mysterious mysterious family that seems to have been originally forgotten from the old records of Egypt, because it was in this period of political decline and fragmentation,” said Joseph Wajner, an Egyptian scientist and professor of Egyptian archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, who leads this drilling. “This mysterious grave … opens a new type of investigation (in the Abydos family).”
Experts say that the burial room is the largest that is discovered from any known ruler from the same family, which illuminates a period that previously understood from history, which can only be revealed through the remains of materials.
The lost pharaoh
Archaeologists found the grave about 23 feet (about 7 meters) underground at the old Necropolis site, or “the city of the dead”. Necropolis is located in abydos’ Anubis MountainA natural pyramid formation was sacred by the ancient Egyptians and worked to hide the graves that were built under it.
In historical records, Abidus was referred to as a holy city that was the last place of Osiris – the god of the underworld – and the preferred place for the first branch. Necropolis has evolved for centuries, as more breeds built graves and bury their kings inside the royal cemetery.
More than a decade ago, Wegner and his team coincided with the first grave within this necropolis Confirm existence From the Abydos family, a ruling dynasty was assumed for the first time in 1997 Egyptologist Kim Raholt. Rahult believed that the smaller family would rule the Abydos region during the time when ancient Egypt was divided into competitors.
The owner of the first grave, King Sinb Kai, was a pharaoh that is completely unknown and was absolutely mentioned in historical records. Among the eight graves of the family that has been discovered so far, SENEB-KAI is the only one to have a name preserved in the burial room.
The newly found grave is similar in architecture and decorations, but it is much larger than Seneb-kay- the main cabin in a three-journal base with a length of about 1.9 meters (6.2 feet) with a length of 6 meters (19.7 feet). Since the grave was built in a section of necropolis, which researchers believed to be created earlier in time, they believe that the wealthy king buried there is likely to be a predecessor for Seneb-kay.
Scientists suspect that the grave may have been affiliated with King Sinaib or King Pinjini, and they are two representatives in the sporadic archaeological record of the dynasty as part of a dedicated memorial in Abydos.
“It is equally possible that there is a completely unknown property,” said Wigner, who is also the Secretary of the Egyptian Department at the Pennsylvania Museum. “We don’t think we have all the names (Kings of Abydos) – the evidence has not been constantly survived for them.”
While any signs may help determine the newly discovered burial rooms, the grave still has two images plated by Isis and Nephthys, which were usually photographed in funerary rituals as if they were crowding the deceased.
Winner said researchers plan to investigate about 10,000 square meters (more than 100,000 square feet) more than desert terrain in the region in an attempt to detect additional graves. “There can be easily 12 or 15 kings that compose this group of kings,” he said.
In addition to further excavation, researchers will clarify the area using the Earth’s penetration radar, technology that uses sound waves to set the structures under the surface of the earth, as well as measuring magnetic, creating maps of underground structures that have magnetic signatures.
“The discovery of another governor of Abydos,” said Salima Ekram, a professor of Egyptians at the American University of Cairo, in an email. “It proves that there was a royal cemetery … here at the time, providing us with more details about the engineering of the royal grave, (and) giving us an idea about the members of this family and the regime that they ruled.”
IKRAM did not participate in the discovery of the burial room, but she said that she hopes to implement future excavations from more graves that will help “enhance our understanding of the period once from Egyptian history.”
Re -writing ancient Egyptian history
The kings of the Abydos family like Seneb-kay Faridon because they do not appear in the king’s lists that the ancient Egyptians kept.
“The Egyptian kings loved to present their history clearly and in pace and recorded the names (King). Bestock did not participate in the discovery of the new Tomb,” said Laurel Pastock, an archaeologist in Rod Island.
“When we find these effects, it shows us how insignificant this strict historical and sin – was truly written, not accurate, but to support a specific view of the subsequent kings who went and gathered Egypt,” added Bestock. “They wrote about themselves as a wonderful victor, won ethnic wars, and ignored a kind of young players.”
Discoveries like the last Abydos tomb “incredibly exciting” because they provide a context of a richer history, regardless of whether the identity of this king has been revealed or not, as Bestock pointed out.
As of now, the king to whom the burial room belongs is a mystery, but the goal of Wegner is to determine the ruler one day to help consolidate it in the historical schedule. “With archaeology, contemplate the evidence,” Winner said. “The archaeological record, as you know, gives you surprises, transformations and transformed along the way, so you never know you can find it.”
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