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Spanish Archaeologists Discover Unopened 4000-Year-Old Tomb in Aswan

March 22, 2017
Archival photo: An inside look of a discovered tomb in Egypt’s Aswan.

More discoveries are revealed week after week in Egypt reaching the Spanish Archaeological Mission discovery of an intact burial chamber in Qubbet el-Hawa, West Aswan. The discovered burial belongs to Sarenput II, the brother of one of the most important governors of the 12th Dynasty (middle Kingdom), according to Luxor Times Magazine on Wednesday. “The discovery is important because not only for the richness of the burial but it sheds light on those individuals who were shadowed by others in power. In fact, there is no much information about them,” said Mahmoud Afifi, head of the ancient Egyptian antiquities department of the antiquities ministry. Director of Aswan Antiquities Nasr Salama said that the present finding is unique because it has been located with all the funerary goods, which consist of pottery, two cedar coffins (outer and inner) and a set of wooden models, which represents funerary boats and scenes of the daily life. Another discovery has been disclosed through the efforts of Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, director of the Spanish mission of the University of Jaen. A mummy covered with a polychrome cartonnage, a beautiful mask and collars in good condition of preservation, was…


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