A newly discovered ancient Egyptian grave is to shed light on the ruling family that ruled the region for more than 3,600 years.
Archaeologists have discovered the huge funeral room of limestone, which contains several rooms and decorated entry in January in Abydos, Egypt.
But the luxury cemetery occupant is still a mystery. Looters loveers hurt the hieroglyphic text that the bricks drew at the entrance, making the name not readable, according to Declare On March 27 by the Pennsylvania Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.
The impressive grave has not contained structural residue that could help identify its owner. However, the researchers who discovered that this is the place that rests the king who ruled High During the second intermediate period, between 1640 and 1540 BC, as part of Abydos familyOne of the less understanding strains of ancient Egypt. The mysterious king can be one of the many things that are absent from the traditional records of kings who have already ruled the region.
“It is a very mysterious and mysterious dynasty that it seems mainly from the old records of Egypt, because it is in this period of political decline and fragmentation,” said Joseph Wajner, Egyptologist and Egyptian Archaeological Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “This mysterious grave … opens a new type of research path (around the Abydos family).”
Experts say that the funeral room is the greatest discovery of any known ruler of the same family, which illuminates a period that is misunderstood before, which can only be revealed through material effects.
“necropolis”
Archaeologists have found the grave about 7 meters away at the old Necropolis website, or “the city of the dead”. Necropolis is located on Anubis of Abidos, a natural pyramid that the sacred Egyptians considered and served to hide the graves that were built under it.
In historical records, Abydos was referred to as a holy city that was the rest of Osiris – the god of the underworld – and the preferred place for the first branch. Necropolis has evolved over the centuries, as more breeds built graves and buried their kings inside the royal cemetery.
More than a decade ago, Wegner and his team found the first grave in this nitropolis who confirmed the presence of the Abydos family, a ruler line that the Egyptian scientist Kim Raholt assumed for the first time in 1997. Rahult believed that the younger family would have ruled the Abidus region during a period that ancient Egypt was divided into competing kingdoms.
The owner of this first grave, King Sinib Kai, was a completely unknown pharaoh that was not mentioned in historical records. Among the eight graves of the discovered dynasty so far, SaneB-Kay’s is the only one to have a name preserved in the funeral room.
The newly discovered grave is similar in architecture and decorations, but it is much larger than the SENEB-Kay’s-the main cabin consisting of three rooms about 1.9 meters with a length of 6 meters.
Since the grave was built in a section of Necropolis, which researchers believe have been established before, they believe that the rich king buried there may have been a predecessor for SENEB-Kay. Scientists suspect that the grave may have been affiliated with King Sinaib or King Pinjini, who are two representatives in the rare archaeological record of the dynasty as part of a monument dedicated to Abydos.
“It is also possible that there will be 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.”
Although any signs can help identify the occupant of the newly discovered funerary room, the grave still has two films plated from ISIS and Nephys deities, which were usually filmed in the funeral rituals as if they were moving by the deceased. Wigner said researchers are planning an additional 10,000 square meters of desert land in the region in an attempt to discover more graves. “There can be easily 12 or 15 kings who make up this group of kings,” he said.
In addition to the new excavations, the researchers will examine 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.
“Another teacher of Abydos is very exciting,” said Salima Ekram, professor of Egyptian University at the American University in Cairo. “This proves that there was a large royal cemetery here at the time, providing us with more details about the real grave structure, and gives us evidence of the members of this family and the regime that they ruled.”
IKRAM did not participate in the discovery of the funeral room, but he said that he hoped that future excavations will reveal more graves that will help “deepen our understanding of this mysterious period previously from Egyptian history.”
Re -writing the history of ancient Egypt
The kings of the Abydos dynasty, such as Seneb-kay, are unique because they do not appear in the lists of kings that the ancient Egyptians kept. “The Egyptian kings loved to present their history directly and in line and recorded the names of the kings in order. These kings are not there. So if we look at this type of strict historical records, we will not have a place for these kings,” said Laurel Pastock, a professor of antiquities at the University of Rod Island. Bestock did not participate in the discovery of the new grave.
“When we find these effects, it explains to us how this strict historical and pace record is not appropriate – it was really written, not accurate, but to support a specific view of the subsequent kings who gathered Egypt.” “They described themselves as victorious, overcoming ethnic wars, and simply ignored all young participants.”
Discoveries such as the last grave of Abidos “incredibly exciting” because they provide a context of a richer story, regardless of whether the identity of this king was revealed or not, Bestock has noticed.
To date, the king he belongs to Funeral room This is still a mystery, but Wigner’s goal is to define the ruler one day to help consolidate him in the historical schedule. “With archeology, the evidence is waiting.” “The archaeological record, as you know, gives you surprises and transformers along the way, so you never know you can find it.”
