11 sealed burials with jewelry and copper mirrors unearthed in Luxor

A joint Egyptian-American mission of archaeologists has been shocked after unearthing eleven sealed tombs in a tomb near the South Asasif necropolis, next to the Temple of Hatshepsut on the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor. According to Egypt Ministry of Tourism and AntiquitiesThe 11 tombs contain skeletons of men, women and children, suggesting that this is a family tomb that may have been in use for several generations, during the 12th Dynasty and early 13th Dynasty.

“The joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission working on the restoration project of the Cowardice of South Al-Assif has discovered the first medieval cemetery with many unopened closed graves for men, women and children, as well as a collection of unique artifacts,” the statement said. .

Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said most of the burials were badly damaged due to floods that destroyed the wood of coffins and wrapped linen fabrics.

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The jewelry and mirrors

However, the discovery included a wealth of beautifully crafted jewelry, as well as a statuette described as an “important find.” The necklace was a unique find because it consisted of “30 cylindrical amethyst stone beads with two cylindrical agate beads surrounding a hippopotamus head.”

In two of the burials, the archaeologists found copper mirrors, one with a lotus-shaped handle, another with a rare design of the goddess Hathor’s face with four faces that showed her as a woman with rigorous features.

“The fertile blue and green Venetian stone with severed legs, well designed and decorated with an assortment of jewelry, and her hair is dyed black. About 4,000 clay beads were found next to the small statue, which formed her natural hair,” said Dr. Elena Batchkova, director of the South Sensitive Cowardice Preservation Project.

In June earlier this year, 36 tombs containing 20 to 40 mummies each were discovered in the city of Aswan, located on the east bank of the Nile and constructed 4,500 years ago. The tombs were dated between 600 BC and 300 AD – a period that covers many important parts of history, including Persian rule, the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty and Roman rule.