Cairo - Said Faramawy
An Egyptian mission discovered valuable monuments in a pharaonic tomb, south of the country, including 8 mummies, 10 wooden caskets, and about a thousand small statues. This cemetery from Kings’ Valley date back to a judge from the 18th dynasty, called “The city judge”, and it was re-used few centuries later to put extra mummies in it.
The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Antiquities, Nevine El Arif told reports in Luxor that the tomb contains at least 8 mummies, but the head of this mission, Mostafa Al Waziri revealed that it contains 8 mummies and 10 caskets. Minister of Culture, Khaled Anani said that a lot of monuments were found in this tomb including, mummies, caskets, and Oshapti statues that were put with the dead to serve them on the afterlife.
Anani aslo said that pottery with name “Osrahat” on them, which was the tomb’s owner name, were found, adding that Osrahat lived in the beginning of the pharaonic era, and this tomb belongs to the 18th family 1550-1292 BC, and was reused in 1070-664 BC.