new mummy finds at Saqqara!
Feb. 11th, 2009 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ankh_hplOK, once again this is definitely a "related remarks" post -- but Andie Byrnes' fascinating Egyptology News blog for Feb. 10th is offering some very current information (with links and photos!) on the recent discovery of around two dozen mummies in a 2,600-year-old tomb at the necropolis of Saqqara, located south of Cairo.
The tomb is at the bottom of a 36-foot deep shaft. So far, twenty-two mummies have been found in niches along the tomb's walls. There are also eight sarcophagi, only one of which has been opened so far. That one did have a mummy in it. The tomb itself has been dated to 640 B.C. during the 26th Dynasty. However, the tomb was found at an even older site which dates to the 4,300-year-old 6th Dynasty.
Andie's blog entry includes links to five other news sites, plus some lovely close-up shots of a sarcophagus. Definitely worthwhile reading for any spec fiction writer or poet fascinated by the continuing story of ancient Egypt.
The tomb is at the bottom of a 36-foot deep shaft. So far, twenty-two mummies have been found in niches along the tomb's walls. There are also eight sarcophagi, only one of which has been opened so far. That one did have a mummy in it. The tomb itself has been dated to 640 B.C. during the 26th Dynasty. However, the tomb was found at an even older site which dates to the 4,300-year-old 6th Dynasty.
Andie's blog entry includes links to five other news sites, plus some lovely close-up shots of a sarcophagus. Definitely worthwhile reading for any spec fiction writer or poet fascinated by the continuing story of ancient Egypt.
