Several tombs of high priests, around 3,000 years old, have been discovered in Egypt. Sixteen tombs containing twenty stone and wooden sarcophagi were exhumed at the site of Al Ghoreifa, 300 km south of Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced on Thursday.
These tombs house the remains of several high priests of the god Thoth, with the body of a man and the head of an Ibis, and a few remains of important Egyptian dignitaries. Some sarcophagi are engraved with hieroglyphs.
A New discovery of tombs of high priests of the God Thot, with big coffins and sarcophagi, and thousands of statuettes and amulets, in Tuna El-Gabal in Minya. pic.twitter.com/DM2RBI9UJG
- Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (@TourismandAntiq) January 30, 2020Pure gold amulets
One of the stone sarcophagi is dedicated to the god Horus, with the head of a falcon, son of Isis and Osiris. Engraved on the stone, a representation of the goddess Nut, mother of all the stars, spreads its wings over the entire sarcophagus.
Archaeologists have also discovered 10,000 blue and green earthenware figurines, 700 scarab-shaped amulets, some of them in pure gold, as well as an amulet in the shape of a winged cobra. Canopic jars, intended to accommodate the viscera of the deceased, were also exhumed.
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