Egypt: they find a new tomb of an ancient monarch from 3,500 years ago in Luxor

A British-Egyptian mission has found a tomb of an

believed to belong to the

(1575 and 1295 BC) west of the Nile River bank in Luxor in southern Egypt.

The secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, stated in a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities that "the importance of the discovery lies in the fact that preliminary data inside the tomb indicate so far that it probably dates from the time of the

of the Eighteenth Dynasty".

Now the next step will be to verify the archaeological documentation of the tomb to finish verifying the date. 

For his part, the director of the archaeological location of the western valleys, Mohsen Kamel, explained that the tomb discovered "

due to the rains that fell during the ancient eras that flooded its chambers with dense residues of sand and limestone, which which led to

."

Archaeologists work at the site of a newly discovered tomb in the Luxor province of southern Egypt.

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The head of the mission for the English side, Perez Lezerland, said in the statement that the tomb discovered may "belong to one of the

during the Thutmosis era, of whom not much has been discovered so far." .

This era of the Eighteenth Dynasty is considered one of the

.

The discovery of this tomb is the latest in a series of discoveries that Egypt has promoted in recent years in the hope of attracting more tourists.

Another Amazing Find: Crocodile Heads Inside Tombs

Experts from the Polish Center for Mediterranean Archeology at the University of Warsaw discovered

, wrapped in cloth in mortuary complexes thousands of years old,

.

The "extraordinary" find took place in a huge dump of rubble and archaeological remains left behind by American researchers in 1922 in Egypt.

The first tomb belonged to Chancellor Cheti, one of the most prominent officials in the court of Nebhepetra Mentuhotep II (2055-2022 BC), while the second is attributed to an anonymous vizier of the pharaoh's court.

The presence of the reptilian remains inside the tombs of officials is quite unusual and indicates the high position of the deceased.

The investigated graves revealed crocodile skeletal parts, including skull and jaw fragments, loose teeth, and osteoderms (bony plates on the skin).

The analysis carried out showed that the remains came from baby Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) of about 5 meters.

This species is considered the largest and most dangerous of all sub-Saharan African crocodiles.

With information from EFE