An Egyptian archeological mission has made a number of new discoveries this season whereas excavating on the Abu El-Naga necropolis close to Luxor. The announcement was made by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Among the many most essential finds of the season was a cache of ten effectively preserved, painted picket coffins that had been hidden within the shaft of the courtyard of the tomb of Baki. The coffins, that includes brightly painted scenes and hieroglyphic inscriptions, have been probably moved from their authentic burial websites throughout a interval of instability, resulting in some harm to the mummies inside..
4 of those coffins date to Egypt’s 18th Dynasty (c. 1550–1292 BC), together with one coffin bearing the identify of Benefit, chantress of the god Amun. A further coffin from the later Ramesside interval ((c. 1292–1077 BC) is inscribed with the identify of Padi-Amun, a priest within the Temple of Amun. The remaining coffins belong to the Egypt’s Late Interval (664–332 BC).
In the identical courtyard, the staff additionally uncovered the tomb of a purification priest of the Temple of Amun named A-Shafi-Nakhtu. The tomb consists of a courtyard, shaft, and entrance embellished with funerary scenes resulting in the person’s burial chamber. Inscribed on the façade of the tomb are the names of the priest’s two wives, each of whom held the title “Singer of the Temple of Amun.”
Extra discoveries included a sandstone figurine bearing the identify “Benji,” and the titles “scribe” and “noble,” whose tomb could also be hidden close by. Excavators additionally uncovered the burial web site of greater than 30 mummified cats wrapped in linen. The mummified animals are believed to this point to the Ptolemaic Interval (305–30 BC).
The present excavation season started in November 2025 and is the staff’s eighth at this web site. In keeping with the Director Basic of Luxor Antiquities, Abdel-Ghaffar Wagdy, the house owners of the newly found tombs aren’t talked about in earlier historic sources. He added that a number of the titles discovered on their tombs and coffins are new to researchers, including to our information of the executive and non secular buildings of historical Egypt.
