An Egyptian mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in its eighth season at the Abu el-Naga necropolis on Luxor’s West Bank, announced a remarkable group of discoveries near the tomb of Roy (TT255).
What was found
- Ten painted wooden coffins in a burial shaft, including one for Merit, a chantress of Amun, and one for the priest Padi-Amun.
- The previously unknown tomb of Aa-Shefi-Nakhtu, a purifier priest in the Temple of Amun.
- A sandstone pyramidion belonging to a scribe named Benji.
- More than 30 mummified cats from the Ptolemaic Period, wrapped in linen.
Why it matters
The coffins span the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Late Period, offering a rare window into more than a thousand years of burial traditions in ancient Thebes.
Source: Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, as reported by Archaeology Magazine.
