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New 3.600-year-old tombs discovered in Luxor, Egypt

The mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, located beneath the cliffs of Deir el Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.The mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, located beneath the cliffs of Deir el Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Last Wednesday new archaeological discoveries carried out in the causeway of the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, located at Deir al-Bahri, on the west bank of the Nile, near the city of Luxor, Egypt.

The main find was a series of rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3.600 years. Archaeologists found anthropoid wooden coffins, one of them belonging to a child, which remained untouched since its burial.

But war bows were also found, suggesting that the occupants of the tombs had military ties and participated in the liberation of Egypt from the Hyksos, bronze coins with the image of Alexander the Great from the time of Ptolemy I, children's clay toys and funerary masks, among others. 

In addition, archaeologists discovered remains of the Valley Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, tombs from the 17th Dynasty and part of the Ptolemaic necropolis of Asasif, built over the remains of the temple. 

One of the most significant finds was the tomb of Djehuti-Mes, an official who oversaw the palace of Queen Teti Sheri, and according to an inscription on the funerary stele, the tomb dates to between 1550 and 1525 BC.

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