Double dig joy for Luxor tomb team
TWO previously unknown tombs dating back around 3,500 years have been discovered in the Egyptian city of Luxor.
Archaeologists had been led to the entrances of the burial sites after discovering the nearby tomb of god Amun-Re’s goldsmith in September.
Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry said one of the tombs, which has five separate entrances, contains painted wooden funerary masks, gilded coffins and a mummy wrapped in linen.
The other has a sixmetre burial shaft leading to four side chambers, and contained fragments of wooden coffins along with other artefacts.
Wall inscriptions and paintings suggest the tombs date to around 1490BC – the 18th dynasty of pharaohs.
It is thought the tombs belonged to two of the kingdom’s senior officials. stairs at home. Doctors say it was caused by the 58-year-old’s low blood pressure and he had to miss two episodes of the X Factor.
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