New discoveries at an archaeological site in Minya, Egypt
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A view of mummies found in tombs of late period high priests at the Al-Ghoreifa area of the Tuna El-Gabal archaeological site, Minya governorate, 270km south of Cairo, Egypt.
Egypt’s antiquities ministry last week unveiled the tombs of ancient high priests and a sarcophagus dedicated to the sky god Horus at an archaeological site in Minya governorate.
The mission found 16 tombs containing 20 sarcophagi, some engraved with hieroglyphics.
A view of a mummy found at tombs of late period high priests at the Al-Ghoreifa area of the Tuna El-Gabal archaeological site, Minya governorate, 270km south of Cairo, Egypt. EPA-EFE/FADY FRANCIS
The shared tombs were dedicated to high priests of the god Djehuty and senior officials, from the Late Period around 3,000 years ago, the ministry said.
The ministry also unveiled 10,000 blue and green ushabti (funerary figurines), 700 amulets – including some made of pure gold – bearing scarab shapes, and one bearing the figure of a winged cobra.
Painted limestone canopic jars, which the ancient Egyptians used to store the entrails of their mummified dead, were also unearthed.
A view of a skeleton and a stone sarcophagus found at tombs of late period high priests at the Al-Ghoreifa area of the Tuna El-Gabal archaeological site, Minya governorate, 270km south of Cairo, Egypt. EPA-EFE/FADY FRANCIS
