urgent.. "Zahi Hawass" An important new discovery is announced in Luxor

Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass announced… Head of the joint archaeological mission of the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage, in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, on many archaeological discoveries.

 

 

 

 

 

"Hawass" confirmed Over the course of three years of research and scientific excavations that began in September 2022, the mission was able to make a number of important archaeological discoveries in the area located at the beginning of the ascending road to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahri. .

 

 

 

The Valley Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (1479 – 1458 BC)

 

The mission revealed part of the foundations of the Valley Temple, which was located on the outskirts of the Valley, and is the main entrance gate to the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut called “Gesru Bridge.” Which is considered the most beautiful Pharaonic temple ever .

 

"Hawass" indicated Until the mission found a large number of Valley Temple inscriptions, which are among the rarest and most beautiful examples of sculpture from the era of Queen Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, the likes of which are unparalleled in Egyptian museums except for a few examples in the Luxor and Metropolitan Museums. The newly discovered collection of royal inscriptions is the most complete. Absolutely from the remains of the Valley Temple, which was demolished during the Ramesside era and the Nineteenth Dynasty .

 

Dr. Muhammad Ismail Khaled, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the mission found more than a hundred stone tablets made of limestone and sandstone on which were recorded the names and cartouches of Queen Hatshepsut (birth name and coronation name). On the throne) and is part of the foundation deposits that confirm the ownership of the temple owner and is known as Stone Name.

 

Among those stone panels is a unique limestone stone panel bearing in relief the name and title of Queen Hatshepsut’s architect, the engineer “Senmut.” His title is supervisor of the palace. The complete set of foundation deposits of Queen Hatshepsut is one of the most important discoveries of the mission, which comes after nearly a century has passed since the American scientist Herbert Wenlock revealed the last complete set of foundation deposits of Queen Hatshepsut at the site of the funerary temple (1923 – 1931). .

 

"Hawass" confirmed The mission found a number of rock tombs from the Middle Kingdom era (2050 – 1710 BC), and revealed at the site of the Valley Temple the historical sequence of the site, whose occupation began in the Middle Kingdom era and continued until the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal engineer Senmut ordered the cessation of burials in The area was chosen as a site for the construction of the Valley Temple and part of an extension of the ascending road linking the Valley Temple and the funerary temple. Senmut buried this cemetery under large amounts of sand as part of the work to prepare the site for the construction of the Valley Temple .

 

Hawass added: The mission found a number of rock tombs dating back to the Middle Kingdom Dynasty era, and a number of important artifacts were found, including sacrificial tables made of pottery and on them were models of bread, wine, and the head and thigh of a bull. These tables are among the distinctive relics of the Middle Kingdom era. ="LTR">.

 

"Hawass" A number of burial pits from the Seventeenth Dynasty (1580 – 1550 BC) were also uncovered, carved in rock and dating back to the Seventeenth Dynasty, and inside them were found a number of wooden coffins with a human appearance, known as feather coffins, which are characteristic of the Seventeenth Dynasty. Among the most important of these coffins is the coffin of a small child, closed and bound with ropes, which remains in its form since its burial 3,600 years ago.

 

Next to those coffins, a rolled-up mat was found that is still in its discovered form. The mission is currently preparing a special program to restore it and transfer it for display in the Museum of Civilization, where the Egyptian mission transferred one of its most important discoveries, which is a bed. From wood and braided mats to the Museum of Civilization in the last excavation season 2023 – 2024, which dates back to that period and belonged to one of the cemetery guards. It was found in a small room designated for the cemetery guard’s living .

 

"Hawass" indicated Military archery bows were found, one of the important discoveries of the Egyptian mission, which indicates the occupation of the owners of these graves, their military background, and their struggle to liberate Egypt from the Hyksos.< /p>

 

The tomb of the so-called Djehuti Mes, the supervisor of the palace of Queen Tetsheri, the great-grandmother of the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty, which is described as the golden age of ancient Egyptian civilization, was also found.

 

The mission revealed the tomb of the supervisor of the palace of Queen Tetchiri, the grandmother of King Ahmose, the liberator of Egypt from the Hyksos, and the mother of his father, King Seqenenre, the first martyr king in the War of Struggle and Liberation, one of the most important archaeological discoveries that reveal A lot of light on this important period in the history of Egypt, for which not many antiquities were found, and the cemetery dates to the ninth year of the reign of King Ahmose I (1550 – 1525 BC) as confirmed by the date written on the funerary stela of Djehuti Mes that was found in the cemetery. 

 

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The tomb has a simple layout, consisting of a square room carved into the rock, preceded by a chamber made of mud brick covered with a layer of white mortar, and has a vaulted ceiling.

 

Inside the tomb room, the remains of red-colored drawings were found on a layer of white mortar. On the floor of the room, a rectangular well was found leading to two burial chambers.

 

In the well, a limestone offering table was found, as well as the funerary stele of the tomb’s owner, Jahuti Mes.

 

Despite the important title that the owner of the tomb held as supervisor of the palace of Queen Tetsheri, the most important and powerful queen in ancient Egyptian history, the appearance and simplicity of the tomb gives a lot of economic information. About the beginnings of the Eighteenth Dynasty, which came after bitter wars for liberation that exhausted the state’s economy"LTR">.

 

 

"Hawass" confirmed Part of an extended Ptolemaic cemetery that occupied the site of the ascending road and the valley temple was uncovered. Its tombs were built of mud bricks and parts of the stones of the temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Some of its parts were uncovered by foreign missions at the beginning of the last century and were not properly documented. span dir="LTR">.

 

The Egyptian mission also uncovered a large number of antiquities from that period, including bronze coins bearing the image of Alexander the Great and dating back to the era of Ptolemy I (367-283). Children’s toys made of terracotta (burnt clay) in human and animal shapes were also found, as well as a number of pieces of cardboard, funerary masks that covered mummies, and a large number of winged scarabs, beads, and funerary amulets. .

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