Egypt
Countless generations found their debt belonging to the ancient aristocracy for creating tombs most of the people could not afford however the owner is dead and depending on reverences the grave fell into disuse within a generation or two with its reuse only a matter of practicality.
By the end of the sixth dynasty and again the twentieth dynasty the sacred burial grounds were teaming with not forgotten deposits of treasure with these past elites leading the way with fancy monuments but whether it was the grandsons and great grandsons of the parlours who dug up their own it would be most practical for the priests who forefathers buried the lord to have their sons undue the work.
The enthusiasm of the workers who are placed in charge of the dis assembly of the sacred necropolis's and their sacred objects appear in the time of Piankh from a letter in the British museum to be an extremely important events with King Piankh saying in his letter that the tomb found should remain sealed until he can get there.
Rulers like Herihor and Pinudgem I relished their positions within the reorganizing of the sacred vaults particularly in the royal valleys. Both men wanted to be associated with their handling's of the Kings but what became of those harems of the individual rulers their are large amounts of Queens burials and mummies now missing perhaps as the unfortunate result of placement during the reorganization at the beginning of 21rst dynasty.
The same too may be the natural response of priests at the fall of the old kingdom back at the end of the sixth dynasty. It is not unreasonable that the priests of Giza an Saqqara may have also rounded the royal mummies together for safe keeping and to relieve the noble corpse of their possessions.
This activity probably reached its zenith during the reign of the Tanite king Psussenes I after this recycling high the slow dissent began. A society dependent upon destroying the art created by their ancestors for those who they venerate they now destroy their legacy for gold.
The following generations of necropolis officials must certainly had faced the sacrilege of what they were doing as the pickings became slimmer and slimmer and the sons job not nearly so.
The restoration of the necropolis's created generational occupations of destruction.
When db358 was discovered the tombs original occupant Meryetamen had been robbed of all her valuables including 3 of her alabaster canopic jars? The tomb is probably the finest restoration of a mummy that has come down to this day. Many hours were spent by workers in the uncomfortable environment beautifully re wrapping the mummy covering it in garlands even painting Meryetamen's two surviving coffins.
One wonders how "official" the robbery of the Queens tomb was and what roll Meryetamen's riches played in King Herihor's Renaissance.
- More Re Discovery Of Tomb Of Queen Behenu
Reuters The well-known necropolis of Saqqara, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo, served the nearby city of Memphis and was scoured in ancient times by thieves. The 5th Dynasty is generally understood to have lasted from 2465 to 2323 BC, while the 6th Dynasty...
- Raising Funds
Professor Andrzej Niwinski of the Polish team excavating at Deir el-Bahari believes that his team is within 30 meters to the intact burial of Herihor complete with gold mask and jewels. A great triumph for Polish archaeology and the University of Warsaw....
- Animal Tombs In The Valley Of Kings
In 1906 archaeologist Edward Ayrton discovered and excavated three tombs in Egypt's "Valley of the Kings". When he entered tomb KV50 he found a hot low ceiling shaft tomb with one chamber and two occupants facing off with each other, a mummified yellow...
- The Forgotten Boy
In the recent two year study of Eighteenth Dynasty royal mummies it seems that this boy from a side chamber in valley of kings tomb KV 35 was not included. There are artifacts from the tomb Kv 35 which belong to a son of Amenhotep II named Webensenu as...
- A Cemetery For Thutmosis And Amenhotep
My intentions in writing this article is only meant as an interpretation of the royal necropolis with a number of the tombs mentioned we will probably never know anything about. It appears the early kings of dynasty 18 used the new cemetery to keep their...
Egypt
A Lavish Resource
Countless generations found their debt belonging to the ancient aristocracy for creating tombs most of the people could not afford however the owner is dead and depending on reverences the grave fell into disuse within a generation or two with its reuse only a matter of practicality.
By the end of the sixth dynasty and again the twentieth dynasty the sacred burial grounds were teaming with not forgotten deposits of treasure with these past elites leading the way with fancy monuments but whether it was the grandsons and great grandsons of the parlours who dug up their own it would be most practical for the priests who forefathers buried the lord to have their sons undue the work.
The enthusiasm of the workers who are placed in charge of the dis assembly of the sacred necropolis's and their sacred objects appear in the time of Piankh from a letter in the British museum to be an extremely important events with King Piankh saying in his letter that the tomb found should remain sealed until he can get there.
Rulers like Herihor and Pinudgem I relished their positions within the reorganizing of the sacred vaults particularly in the royal valleys. Both men wanted to be associated with their handling's of the Kings but what became of those harems of the individual rulers their are large amounts of Queens burials and mummies now missing perhaps as the unfortunate result of placement during the reorganization at the beginning of 21rst dynasty.
The same too may be the natural response of priests at the fall of the old kingdom back at the end of the sixth dynasty. It is not unreasonable that the priests of Giza an Saqqara may have also rounded the royal mummies together for safe keeping and to relieve the noble corpse of their possessions.
This activity probably reached its zenith during the reign of the Tanite king Psussenes I after this recycling high the slow dissent began. A society dependent upon destroying the art created by their ancestors for those who they venerate they now destroy their legacy for gold.
The following generations of necropolis officials must certainly had faced the sacrilege of what they were doing as the pickings became slimmer and slimmer and the sons job not nearly so.
The restoration of the necropolis's created generational occupations of destruction.
When db358 was discovered the tombs original occupant Meryetamen had been robbed of all her valuables including 3 of her alabaster canopic jars? The tomb is probably the finest restoration of a mummy that has come down to this day. Many hours were spent by workers in the uncomfortable environment beautifully re wrapping the mummy covering it in garlands even painting Meryetamen's two surviving coffins.
One wonders how "official" the robbery of the Queens tomb was and what roll Meryetamen's riches played in King Herihor's Renaissance.
- More Re Discovery Of Tomb Of Queen Behenu
Reuters The well-known necropolis of Saqqara, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo, served the nearby city of Memphis and was scoured in ancient times by thieves. The 5th Dynasty is generally understood to have lasted from 2465 to 2323 BC, while the 6th Dynasty...
- Raising Funds
Professor Andrzej Niwinski of the Polish team excavating at Deir el-Bahari believes that his team is within 30 meters to the intact burial of Herihor complete with gold mask and jewels. A great triumph for Polish archaeology and the University of Warsaw....
- Animal Tombs In The Valley Of Kings
In 1906 archaeologist Edward Ayrton discovered and excavated three tombs in Egypt's "Valley of the Kings". When he entered tomb KV50 he found a hot low ceiling shaft tomb with one chamber and two occupants facing off with each other, a mummified yellow...
- The Forgotten Boy
In the recent two year study of Eighteenth Dynasty royal mummies it seems that this boy from a side chamber in valley of kings tomb KV 35 was not included. There are artifacts from the tomb Kv 35 which belong to a son of Amenhotep II named Webensenu as...
- A Cemetery For Thutmosis And Amenhotep
My intentions in writing this article is only meant as an interpretation of the royal necropolis with a number of the tombs mentioned we will probably never know anything about. It appears the early kings of dynasty 18 used the new cemetery to keep their...