Only a few years ago an exceptional find: a group of archaeologists found here a tomb containing 50 mummies in good condition of more than 2000 years in Minya, south of Cairo
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himTuna el-Jebel is the necropolis of the ancient city of Ermoupoli, in the governorate of Minya, in Middle Egypt and on the west bank of the Nile. Alberto Angela will bring us among these wonders tomorrow morning with his Northwest Passage on Rai1.
In this marvelous archaeological site, 2019 mummies were discovered in 50 alone, including 12 of children, inside four burial chambers nine meters deep. They would go back to the Ptolemaic age, therefore to the period from 305 to 30 BC (the last Ptolemaic queen was Cleopatra). And in particular some have been found wrapped in linen while others placed in stone coffins or wooden sarcophagi.
The identities of the mummies are still unknown, but from the mummification method it is likely that the people were of high rank.
We did not find names written in hieroglyphics, Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, explained at the time.
Egypt is certainly not new to these findings. The discovery is in fact added to other recent ones of comparable beauty and importance, such as the 8 mummies of the necropolis of Dahshur or the 4400-year-old tomb in the site of Saqqara.
Excavations in different areas of the fascinating North African country continue: we therefore expect to see other images like these and to rediscover pieces of a world so distant that it still belongs to us.
In Egypt, a German archaeologist is exploring the Tuna el-Gebel catacombs, which are home to hundreds of thousands of stuffed animals. Tomorrow at #PassaggioANordOvest, at 11.20 on @RaiUno, we will know these sacrificial rites which are among the last mysteries of Ancient Egypt.
– Alberto Angela (@albertoangela) April 1, 2022
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