And here is one more tomb for the Theban necropolis.
A new tomb, probably that of a royal wife of the 18th dynasty, that of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, has been discovered in Luxor, the Thebes of the pharaohs, Egyptian authorities revealed on Saturday.
Dated to the 15th century BCE, this royal tomb was unearthed by Egyptian and British researchers on the west bank of the Nile, where the Valleys of the Kings and Queens are located.
"This tomb could be that of a royal wife or a princess of the line of Thutmosides of which very little has been brought to light"
, announced in a press release the archaeologist Piers Litherland of the University of Cambridge, who directs the team of British researchers for this mission.
The head of Egyptian Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, welcomed this discovery on Saturday, which comes as excavations are still continuing on the spot.
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The interior of this tomb is
"in poor condition"
with
"many constructions and inscriptions destroyed due to the floods of antiquity which filled the mortuary chambers with sandy and limestone sediments"
, adds the Egyptian archaeologist Mohsen Kamel, also quoted in the press release.
The Golden Age of Ancient Egypt
The XVIIIth dynasty is considered, with the XIXth dynasty, as the apogee and the most prosperous period of ancient Egypt, under the New Kingdom, which adds to the cachet of the discovery.
Several other discoveries have also been presented in recent months by Egypt, mainly in the necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo.
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Plunged into a serious economic crisis, Egypt is counting on these announcements to revive tourism, hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This sector, which employs two million people - in the country of 104 million inhabitants - and generates more than 10% of GDP has been at half mast since the 2011 revolution.
Cairo has been promising for months the imminent opening of its Grand Egyptian Museum, built near the Giza plateau, but without having so far a precise date for its inauguration.
Formerly scheduled for 2020, the opening of this future flagship institution of Egyptian antiquities was expected by many in 2022, the year of the bicentenary of the deciphering of the Rosetta stone by Jean-François Champollion and the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of the child. -Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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