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#upper egypt

A joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission from Sohag and Berlin Universities has unearthed the burial chamber dating back up to 4,000 years. The burial chamber belonged to Edi, the daughter of Jifai-Hapi, a prominent governor of Assiut in Upper Egypt during the reign of King Senusret I of the 12th Dynasty (1991–1778 BC). The discovery was made while the mission was conducting excavation work on Jifai-Hapi’s tomb in the Western Assuit Mountain, which is considered the largest non-royal burial site from…