On the bank of the Nile near the center of Egypt , archaeologist have stumble across yet another amazing find . On the outskirt of the city of Minya , they havefoundan ancient necropolis containing dozens of mummies dating to around 2,000 year quondam .
The burial ground is made up of at least eight tombs – although Mostafa Waziri , the head of archaeology in Egypt , require this number to grow – with each one housing multiple remains . The most impressive tomb is thought to belong to that of a high priest of the god Thoth , the ancient god of the moonlight and wisdom . For those less clued - in on their ancient Egyptian deities , he is often depicted with the head of an ibis , but also a baboon .
This particular grave of the priest take a whopping 1,000 statues , along with four alabaster canopic jolt containing , as the inscriptions on the pots so helpfully enter , the organs of the high non-Christian priest himself . The mummy was extravagantly adorned with red and blue pearl and wrap in bronze gilded canvas .
Along with the high priest , the tomb also contains at least40 other sarcophagus . Some of these still show the names of the people to which they belong , and it is believed that they were likely the non-Christian priest ’s family penis .
The tombs were discovered last year , and researchers have spent the last few months excavating what they can . They expect the work will go forward for another five years at least . Despite this being in its early leg , Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled al - Enany is already incredibly impressed by what has been regain so far .
“ This is only the beginning , ” Enanytold presswho gather for the news . “ We are very soon going to add a new archaeological attractive feature to Middle Egypt . ”
One of the best find from the tombs is a beautiful necklace spell . recuperate on New Year ’s Eve , Waziri state that it was a “ wonderful conjunction ” that it was inscribed with “ happy new class ” in hieroglyphic .
“ This is a substance sent to us from the hereafter , ” Waziri isreported as saying .
The breakthrough is in an area that house other ancient catacombs dating to the Pharaonic Late Period ( 664 to 332 BCE ) and the Ptolemaic dynasty ( 305 to 30 BCE ) , and adopt on from yet another burial site containing at least 17 ma uncovered in 2017 in the domain of Tuna al - Gabal .
