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The Theban Tomb TT33 is an ancient Egyptian tomb. Located in El-Assasif , it is part of the Theban Necropolis on the west bank of the Nile , opposite to Luxor . The tomb is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian Padiamenope , who was Prophet and Chief Lector Priest during the 26th Dynasty .
Padiamenope's tomb TT33, located at el-Assasif on the west bank of the Nile, is the largest non-royal tomb in the whole Theban Necropolis, [2]: 431 as well as one of the largest ever built in Egypt. [1] It consists of 22 rooms, spread over four underground levels, whose walls offer over 2600m 2 of decorations, although not always well preserved.
Sabu's grave was discovered on January 19, 1936, by the British archaeologist Walter Bryan Emery.It is a mastaba tomb that consists of seven chambers. In Room E, the central burial chamber, the disk was found in a central location right next to Sabu's skeleton, which was originally buried in a wooden coffin. [4]
A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission identified the tomb as belonging to King Thutmose II, an ancient Egyptian king who reigned sometime between 2000 and 1001 BC, the country’s ...
Persephone tomb in Kom el-Shoqafa, 2nd century CE. [ 8 ] At the front of the tomb chamber there is a temple-like façade consisting of two columns topped by papyrus , lotus , and acanthus leaves of ancient Egypt and supporting an architrave with a relief of a central winged sun-disk flanked by Horus falcons.
The Anubis Shrine was part of the burial equipment of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, whose tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered almost intact in 1922 by Egyptologists led by Howard Carter. Today the object, with the find number 261, is on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the inventory number JE 61444. [2]
Archaeologists recently uncovered intriguing artifacts in an excavation in Egypt, including golden "tongues" and "nails," according to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.It was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while he was working in the Valley for Theodore M. Davis.It has long been speculated, as well as much disputed, that the body found in this tomb was that of the famous king, Akhenaten, who moved the capital to Akhetaten (modern-day Amarna).