Ancient Egyptian mayor’s ‘lost tomb’ found
【msnbcより以下、転載】ちょい前のニュースでエジプトの最後の王朝時代の遺物が積まれた船が引き揚げられたニュースを見たけど、こちらも面白そう。
CAIRO - Archaeologists have discovered the 3,300-year-old tomb of the ancient Egyptian capital's mayor, whose resting place had been lost under the desert sand since 19th-century treasure hunters first carted off some of its decorative wall panels, officials announced Sunday.
Ptahmes, the mayor of Memphis, also served as army chief, overseer of the treasury and royal scribe under Seti I and his son and successor, Ramses II, in the 13th century B.C.
The discovery of his tomb earlier this year in a New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, south of Cairo, solves a riddle dating back to 1885, when foreign expeditions made off with pieces of the tomb, whose location was soon after forgotten.
"Since then it was covered by sand and no one knew about it," said Ola el-Aguizy, the Cairo University archaeology professor who led the excavation. "It is important because this tomb was the lost tomb."
Some of the artifacts ended up in museums in the Netherlands, the United States and Italy as well as the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, providing the only clues about the missing tomb.
A team from Cairo University's archaeology department found the tomb during new excavations of the area that started in 2005, el-Aguizy said.
The inner chambers of the large, temple-style tomb and Ptahmes' mummy remain undiscovered.
In the side sanctuaries and other chambers they uncovered, archaeologists found a vivid wall engraving of people fishing from boats made of bundles of papyrus reeds. There were also amulets and fragments of statues.
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3300年前のエジプトの首都メンフィスの首長の墓だもんね！
1885年に一度発見されているのに、忘れ去られたとは・・・。忘れんなよ！（笑）。
まあ、当時はiPhone内蔵のGPSも無かっただろうしね。
砂に埋もれていたから、残っているものも多いのかね？重要だと書かれていますが・・・。
そういやあ～、チュニジアのドゥッガの古代ローマ遺跡もずっと砂に埋もれていたので、当時のものがそのまんま残っているんだよねぇ～。モザイク壁画とか、神殿とか最高の保存状態っすから！
（それ狙ってわざわざ行ったんだから）
そのうち何か貴重な遺物とか出てくるのだろうか？（ワクワク）
あの有名なラムセス２世とかの治世のものらしいし・・・。
