Cleaning work at a 3,900-year-old tomb in Egypt turned into a much larger project when archaeologists followed a shaft deeper underground and found a hidden burial chamber. Photos show the ...
Along the west bank of the Nile River, archaeologists discovered rock-cut tombs and burial shafts up to 3,600 years old ... close to the latest site. Inside that tomb, the 11 graves contained ...
rock-cut tombs dating back to the Middle Kingdom (1938 B.C.—1630 B.C.), burial shafts from the 17th dynasty, the tomb of Djehuti-Mes and part of the Assassif Ptolemaic Necropolis. The rock-cut ...
Inside the burial shafts ... chamber, indicating that those who owned the tombs had military backgrounds and fought to liberate Egypt from the Hyksos. Not many artifacts from Djehuti Mes’s tomb ...