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Over 3,500-year-old sarcophagus found in Egypt
Thursday January 31, 2013 01:04:55 PM,
EFE
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Cairo:
The discovery of a 3,550-year-old child's sarcophagus near the
southern Egyptian city of Luxor could shed light on a little-known
period of Ancient Egypt, said Jose Manuel Galan, the head of a
Spanish team of archaeologists that made the find.
Experts who for the past three years have explored the vicinity of
the tombs of Djehuty and Hery, two high-ranking dignitaries of the
Egyptian court between 1500 and 1450 B.C., discovered the intact
funeral receptacle lying unprotected on the ground a few days ago.
The archaeologists said they were surprised to find a burial
container predating the era of the two officials at that site.
Unlike other sarcophagi, it was not found in a tomb on the hill
that overlooks that section of Luxor's west bank, Galan said,
adding that he now is interested in finding the remains of the
young boy's parents.
Children normally were buried in family cemeteries, according to
the expert, who currently is carrying out research at an ancient
necropolis that "survived" the excavations of 19th and 20th
century Egyptologists because other burial grounds were built on
top of it.
The boy's sarcophagus, made of carved wood and painted white,
dates to 1550 B.C., an era considered "important because very
little is known" about it, Galan said.
It will require looking back at a time when Thebes (present-day
Luxor) was a mere provincial capital.
The Theban rulers' reconquest and reunification of Egypt made that
city the imperial capital and ushered in a prosperous era.
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