The discovery of the effects of age 33 centuries Valley of the Kings

The discovery of the effects of age 33 centuries Valley of the Kings


Said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement yesterday that the mission ancient Egyptian that for the first time the work of exploration in the Valley of the Kings in the south found the time and inscriptions in the old tomb some 33 centuries in addition to the discovery of a statue back to the era of family ninth session about 1320 - 1200 BC.

He said the work of the mission is the first of its kind in the western mainland, where he was confined to the foreign missions that were in control of the excavation work within the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, about 690 km south of Cairo, and includes the Valley of the Kings tombs of the most prominent rulers in ancient Egypt.

He added that the Egyptian mission found during the clean-up work and archaeological excavations in the corridor of the tomb of Seti I, the father of Ramses II, pottery and inscriptions fell from the walls of the cemetery and the Statue of Shawabti and the cartouche of King Seti I second family kings of the nineteenth.

The statuette is a small funerary statues in the form of the mummy of the deceased in the situation where Alaozyre intersect on the chest and both arms were placed in the tomb of the deceased to carry out tasks assigned to him in the other world by the doctrine of the ancient Egyptians The cartouche is a template data recorded by the deceased.