Egypt
Another photograph, showing a beautifully painted anthropoid coffin is at
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I turn my back for five minutes and everything kicks off! Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouq Hosni announced on Sunday 23/5/2010 that forty-five tombs have been unearthed in Lahoun, Fayyoum, containing a group of painted wooden sarcophagi...
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drhawass.com With photographs. Four anthropoid wooden coffins, three wooden canopic jars, and four ushabti boxes have been unearthed inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta in the Dahshur Necropolis,...
- More Re Painted Coffins
Monsters and Critics Egyptian archaeologists have discovered painted wooden coffins that date to the era of Ramses II (1279-1212 BC), Egypt's antiquities chief said Thursday. 'These coffins were found in tombs of senior officials near Saqqara,'...
- Egypt Archaeologists Find Ancient Painted Coffins
Yahoo! News A team of Egyptian archaeologists have discovered several painted wooden coffins, including some dating back to the 13th century BC rule of pharaoh Ramses II. "These coffins were found in the tombs of senior officials...
Egypt
Middle Kingdom coffins found at Saqqara
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070210-114012-2071r
"A Japanese archaeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Egypt, including two from the little-known Middle Kingdom period dating back more than 4,000 years. The sarcophagi were found in tomb shafts in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Saturday. . . . While the vast cemeteries have yielded numerous discoveries from the Old and New Kingdoms, artifacts from the Middle Kingdom of around 2,000 BC are comparatively rare. One of the Middle Kingdom coffins, inlaid with black glass, was found inside a brilliantly painted outer box and dedicated to a man called Sabak Hatab. The other sarcophagus was for a woman named Sint Ayt Ess. The third, which dated back to the New Kingdom's 18th dynasty of around 1,500 BC and contained a mummy, was colored black and decorated with images of the four sons of the god Horus."
See the above page for the full story, which has a photograph of one of the coffins.
Another photograph, showing a beautifully painted anthropoid coffin is at
http://tinyurl.com/ytd4g9 (smh.com.au)
- 45 Tombs Found In Faiyum Area
I turn my back for five minutes and everything kicks off! Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouq Hosni announced on Sunday 23/5/2010 that forty-five tombs have been unearthed in Lahoun, Fayyoum, containing a group of painted wooden sarcophagi...
- Mummies Found In Ancient Egypt Burial Chamber
drhawass.com With photograph A necropolis consisting of 53 rock-cut tombs dating to the Middle (ca. 2061-1786 BC) and New (ca. 1569-1081 BC) Kingdoms and the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 931-725 BC) has been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission sponsored...
- Japanese Mission Finds Wooden Sarcophagi
drhawass.com With photographs. Four anthropoid wooden coffins, three wooden canopic jars, and four ushabti boxes have been unearthed inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta in the Dahshur Necropolis,...
- More Re Painted Coffins
Monsters and Critics Egyptian archaeologists have discovered painted wooden coffins that date to the era of Ramses II (1279-1212 BC), Egypt's antiquities chief said Thursday. 'These coffins were found in tombs of senior officials near Saqqara,'...
- Egypt Archaeologists Find Ancient Painted Coffins
Yahoo! News A team of Egyptian archaeologists have discovered several painted wooden coffins, including some dating back to the 13th century BC rule of pharaoh Ramses II. "These coffins were found in the tombs of senior officials...