Egypt, a tomb dating back to 3,200 years ago discovered in Saqqara

New archaeological find in Egypt in the necropolis of Saqqara, 30 km south of Cairo. The archaeologists of the Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the National Museum of Antiquities of Leiden in the Netherlands, under the direction of the director of theEgyptianChristian Greco, and the curator of the Egyptian and Nubian Collection of the Leiden Museum, Lara Weiss, have unearthed the remains of a tomb that dates back 3,200 years

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The discovery concerns the remains of the tomb of Panehsy, which dates to the early Ramesside period (1250 BC). Panehsy was in charge of the temple dedicated to the god Amun, the archaeological expedition has also brought to light some funerary chapels

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Saqqara is the necropolis of Memphiscapital of ancient Egypt, which according to Egyptian tradition was founded in 3000 BC by King Menes, the first pharaoh of united Egypt

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Panehsy’s tomb is in the shape of a temple, with a monumental entrance and a courtyard with a colonnaded portico in the center of which there is a well which gives access to the underground burial chambers. On the west side, the courtyard is enclosed by three chapels. The rectangular funerary complex, measuring 13.4 meters by 8.2 metres, borders to the south with the famous tomb of Maya, a high official responsible for the treasure of Pharaoh Tutankhamun

The adobe walls of the upper structure of the Paneshy tomb are still standing and reach a height of one and a half meters and are decorated with orthostats, limestone facing slabs, which show colored reliefs in which the owner of the tomb stands out. tomb Panehsy and his wife Baysinger of Amon, and several priests and bearers of offerings

Panehsy name means the Nubian, but this is not necessarily an indication of its origins. With the addition “from Memphis”, Panehsy wants to underline his link with this city, an important administrative and religious center at the time in which Panehsy lived, who therefore could have been born there

East of Panehsy’s tomb, Italian, Egyptian and Dutch archaeologists uncovered four funerary chapels smaller ones, one of which belonged to Yuyu, the craftsman responsible for the production of gold plates in the pharaoh’s treasury. Yuyu’s chapel measures just 1 meter by one meter and 15 cm

Another find noteworthy in the east area of ​​the tomb of Panehsy is a chapel, still anonymous, with a rare representation of the owner of the tomb and his family, whose artistic style could be inspired by the statues near the tomb of Maya and Merit

Thus the director of the Egyptian Museum Christian Greco: “The excavation in Saqqara, begun in 1975 by the Egypt Exploration Society and the National Museum of Antiquities of Leiden, is aimed at the archaeological recontextualization of monuments, reliefs and statues, which reached European collections in the 19th century. In 2015 the Egyptian Museum became a partner of the mission”

Again Greco: “Archaeology today aims to reconstruct the biography of these objects, so that we can better understand the economic and social history of ancient Egypt. The discovery of the chapel of Yuyu is the plastic example of this, in which the door jambs from this monument and preserved today in the Musée de Picardie in Amiens can finally be understood and contextualized”

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