They discover mummy portraits and a huge funerary complex in Egypt: “It’s the find of the year”

It is as magnificent as it is imposing. During the tenth season of excavations at the Yerza cemetery in Egypt’s Fayoum province, archaeologists have found a “huge funerary building from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods”that country’s Ministry of Antiquities reported on its social networks.

The mission also discovered a variety of historical piecesmummy portraits ea “rare” terracotta statue.

​sumptuous discovery

According to Adel Akasha, head of the Central Department of Egyptian Archaeology, the huge and sumptuous complex mix the Architectural style of the Burial houses of ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations.

Also, he explained, inside they discovered “a limestone floor colorful and decorated multicolored tiles“.

“It’s the most important archaeological find of the season,” the official said of the advance.

It happens that they also found naturalistic portraits of mummies, known as “Portraits of Fayoum”. It’s about first copies of this mortuary art discovered over more than a century, since English archaeologist Flanders Petree did the same some 115 years ago. reported RT.

For his part, the head of the excavation, Basem Jihad, explained that the archaeologists have recovered a set of coffins of different stylessome of which were built following a human formhighlighting the Egyptian traditionwhile others follow the Greco-Roman design patterns.

In addition, the experts also found buried a “rare” performance. terracotta goddess isis aphrodite in a wooden coffin, as well as a collection of papyri in Demotic and Greek writingwhich give an idea of ​​what “the social, economic and religious conditions of the region were like at that time”.

Another shocking discovery

In early November, a team of archaeologists discovered numerous objects in the underground tunnels hidden 20 meters deep under the pyramids near the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, reported NBC.

Is a set of ancient sarcophagi and mummies, papyrus documentsas well as ceramic amulets it is believed to have been used in burial rituals, described RT.

They even found the remains of generals and advisers Close to Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

This was said by Zahi Hawass, the famous Egyptologist and former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities NBC that the site contains a incalculable amount of artifacts related to another pharaoh, the king tethys, who ruled from about 2347 to 2337 BC. C., and with his followers, who they worshiped like a god for about a thousand years after his death.

“Really, I think this year and next year, this place will be the most important in Egypt“said the expert, referring to the network of underground spaces yet to be discovered.

He added: “I always say that until now we only found 30 percent of the monuments, 70 percent They are buried underground.”

Hawass indicated that after being subjected to careful scrutiny, the items found will likely be displayed in the Great Egyptian Museum of Gizawhose opening is scheduled for next year, even if the project has been suspended several times due to the lack of government funds and the country’s political instability.