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Hawass highlights the importance of the tomb of Iker

Actualidad

Apologies that there has been a sudden increase in article written in Spanish - but the fact that the discovery of the tomb was made by a Spanish team makes this somewhat inevitable.

This piece says that Zahi Hawass has highlighted the importance of the discovery of the tomb of the soldier Iqer "the Excellent" from 1500BC by a team of Spanish archaeologists. Hawass believes that the importance of the find lies in the fact that it belongs to a period of unification in Egypt, when Upper and Lower Egypt reunited under one reign following a civil war in which this soldier probably fought.

El secretario general del Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades egipcio, Zahi Hawas, destacó hoy la gran importancia del descubrimiento de la tumba del guerrero Iqer 'el Excelente', del año 1500 a.C., por un equipo de arqueólogos españoles.

Hawas consideró que la relevancia del hallazgo reside en que pertenece a la época de la unificación de Egipto, cuando el Alto y el Bajo Egipto pasaron a constituir un único reino después de una guerra civil en la que probablemente luchó el guerrero ahora rescatado.

El jefe de Antigüedades egipcio destacó la importancia de que se hayan hallado utensilios intactos en la tumba de Iqer 'el Excelente', inscripción que aparece en el sepulcro de este arquero de alto rango en escritura jeroglífica.

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