Egyptian Archaeologists Find Goldsmith’s 3,500-Year-Old Tomb
That’s probably why their heads are uncovered." He added, "But we are extremely happy anyway, because this means
that we will find more tombs in this area." Mr. Waziri said his team also found another burial shaft just outside Amenemhat’s tomb, which contained three other mummies from a later period.
10, 2017
His name was Amenemhat, and he lived in Egypt about 3,500 years ago, toiling away
as a royal goldsmith whose work was dedicated to an ancient Egyptian sun god.
After five months of digging under an unforgiving sun, a team of Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the tomb
belonging to the goldsmith who had lived in the desert province of Luxor, the authorities said on Saturday.
The chamber also contained pottery, wooden funerary masks and ushabti figurines, which are small blue, black or white statues
that ancient Egyptians placed in tombs to serve the dead in the afterlife.
Authorities hope that a recent surge in discoveries will attract tourists back to the country, after many people were put off by the protests
that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and a string of bombings and terror attacks.
Swedish archaeologists also discovered 12 cemeteries near the southern city of Aswan that date almost 3,500 years ago.
The discovery was a relatively modest one, but in a country
that has been trying to revive its tourism industry, which has been decimated by political strife and terrorist attacks after the 2011 uprising, officials announced the find with fanfare.
