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Egyptian priestess burial chamber unearthed after 4000 yrs Sensational discovery
Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin.
The coffins were covered with text and illustrations depicting “the journey of the deceased in the afterlife.” Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/FacebookThe tomb dates back to around 1880 BC and has “monumental” architecture, featuring rooms over 36 feet high carved into the rock. “The uncovering of this shaft began in 2022, took three excavation campaigns and has now ended with a sensational discovery – the burial of Idy in two nested wooden coffins with numerous grave goods,” he added. “After an initial conservational consolidation of the wooden objects in the burial chamber and the subsequent laborious recovery from the narrow, 14-meter deep shaft, the finds will be handed over to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism,” he said.
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