Archaeologists in Egypt, the Pharaonic tomb of the singer in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in Upper Egypt.
The detection of this vault a team of scientists from the University of Basil, Switzerland by accident.
Is known for it's mummy singer Nhms Bastet, who was a singer temple during the reign ofpharaonic dynasty twenty-second, which ruled between 945 and 712 BC, according to the inscriptions on the coffin.
Mansour said BRIC Director General for the effects of Luxor he found the tomb which is in excellent condition, and the coffin will be opened next week.
Scientists expect to find a mummy wrapped in burial shrouds covering her face.
Said Pauline Groth us from the University of Basil, the vault was built to accommodate a female singer, but was re-used after 400 years of first use it.
The minister says the Egyptian Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said the mummy belonged toa woman who lived nearly three thousand years, the daughter of a priest in the Amun.
The Egyptian minister added that the importance of the discovery is that the Valley of the Kings also used for the burial of ordinary people as well as priests of the pharaonic dynasty twenty-second.
This is the second newly discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery oftomb and sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in 1922.
The first tomb discovered in 2006, which contained seven coffins were found in any of them on the mummy.
The detection of this vault a team of scientists from the University of Basil, Switzerland by accident.
Is known for it's mummy singer Nhms Bastet, who was a singer temple during the reign ofpharaonic dynasty twenty-second, which ruled between 945 and 712 BC, according to the inscriptions on the coffin.
Mansour said BRIC Director General for the effects of Luxor he found the tomb which is in excellent condition, and the coffin will be opened next week.
Scientists expect to find a mummy wrapped in burial shrouds covering her face.
Said Pauline Groth us from the University of Basil, the vault was built to accommodate a female singer, but was re-used after 400 years of first use it.
The minister says the Egyptian Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said the mummy belonged toa woman who lived nearly three thousand years, the daughter of a priest in the Amun.
The Egyptian minister added that the importance of the discovery is that the Valley of the Kings also used for the burial of ordinary people as well as priests of the pharaonic dynasty twenty-second.
This is the second newly discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery oftomb and sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in 1922.
The first tomb discovered in 2006, which contained seven coffins were found in any of them on the mummy.
Source: BBC Arabic
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