Egypt unearthed 59 wooden coffins dating back 2,500 years, who do they belong to?

Archaeological experts have preliminarily determined that these wooden coffins were priests and scribes of the 26th dynasty of Egypt about 2,500 years ago。This is only a preliminary judgment, and as for who it is, it still needs to be studied and explored in depth. <>

1. Egypt unearthed 59 2,500-year-old wooden coffins Speaking of Egypt, we will think of their pyramids, mummies, sphinxes, etc., giving us a mysterious feeling. On October 3, Egyptian officials announced that archaeologists had found dozens of coffins in the Saqara necropolis, which were 2,500 years old.

These coffins are accompanied by 28 statues of the ancient Egyptian god Seker, Seker was one of the most important funerary gods in Egypt. There are also these coffins that are very beautifully made, and at the press conference, archaeologists opened two wooden coffins, and the mummies in the wooden coffins are quite completeThe wooden coffin will have exquisite human figures on the surface, and the wooden coffin as a whole is in the shape of a human being, which looks very precious.

Based on these conditions, archaeologists speculate that these coffins belonged to the priests and scribes of the 26th dynasty of Egypt about 2,500 years ago. <>

Second, the mummy of ancient Egypt is also commonly known as the dried corpse, the ancient Egyptians used embalming spices to bury the corpse, and then after a series of processing, the corpse no longer decayed, and the corpse became shriveled after a long time, and the mummy was formed.

The ancient Egyptians believed that after death, there would be a soul, and the soul would not perish, and the soul would still be attached to the corpseTherefore, rich and powerful nobles such as pharaohs were mummified after death.

The production of mummies requires a lot of money and is not enjoyed by ordinary people. Of course, the poor also have the poor man's method, and they will use a more economical method to mummify the corpse, and after death, there can be a corpse to cling to. <>

And finally:Ancient Egypt didn't just mummify peopleMany aristocrats would also mummify their petswith the deceased. Cats, dogs, lions, and donkeys were all favorite pets of the ancient Egyptian magnates, but when they were discovered, they were not cherished, and many were destroyed.

Whether it is a human mummy or an animal mummy, it is a good symbol of the ancient and mysterious culture of ancient Egypt.

According to the preliminary judgment of archaeological experts, these wooden coffins were produced by the 26th dynasty of Egypt about 2,500 years ago. They were the priests and scribes of the 26th dynasty of Egypt.

They belonged to the Egyptian dynasty, and these people were priests and scribes.

They belonged to the priests and scholars of the 26th Dynasty of Egypt.

After all, at that time, the status of priests was relatively high, and they would be mummified after burial, and there were well-preserved sacrificial tombs of the Fifth Dynasty that were found before.

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced that archaeologists at Chiya in Spain had found an ancient Egyptian mummy in "very good condition" near Luxor, located inside a brightly colored wooden sarcophagus that had been glued together with linen and plaster. "The mausoleum was found on the southern wall of the temple millions of years ago," said Mahmoud Affifi, Egypt's minister of antiquities, in a statement

The temple was built by Pharaoh Thutmose III (1490-1436 BC), one of Egypt's greatest warrior kings, on the west bank of the Nile near Luxor. He is also known as the "Napoleon of Egypt", the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the most famous of all the dynasties of ancient Egypt as it boasted pharaohs such as Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun.

Related: Ancient Egyptian mummies wearing jewelry, discovered.

The mummy is the corpse of a man named Amunreev, who bears the title of "servant of the king's house". However, Amenlenev did not live under Thutmose III. His mausoleum probably dates from the third intermediate period around 1000 BC, possibly to the 21st Dynasty.

This area was used as a cemetery when the temple was no longer functional, and the Egyptian archaeologist Miriam Seko Álvarez, the leader of the Spanish archaeological team, told the explorers that until now we did not know that the cemetery under the temple dates back to the Middle Kingdom, but we do not know about the late tombs and the tombs of the third middle period," she added, adding that the 3,000-year-old mummy box is characterized by "many colorful decorations reminiscent of the religious symbols of ancient Egypt," said the Egyptologist. Alvarez, who has been working at the multimillion-year-old temple since 2008, notes that the inscriptions and decorations include the symbol of the sun, Isis, the goddess of protection, and Nephes with wings, the four sons of the god Horus, and many other beautifully painted scenes.

Originally published in Explorer magazine.

On October 3, local time, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities** announced that the archaeological team excavated 59 wooden coffins about 2,500 years old in a single tomb in Giza Province. This archaeological discovery is located at:Sakqara region, Giza province, two mummies are preserved intact in the two wooden coffins that were opened at the scene.

Egypt's Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khalid Anani said in an interview with reporters at the scene that this is an important archaeological discovery in the Sakqqara region, and the unearthed wooden coffins are well preserved, and there are still ununearthed wooden coffins waiting to be excavated at the site.

Mustafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters that the wooden coffins were buried 10 to 12 meters underground, and were completely sealed when they were unearthed, with painted surfaces. Along with the wooden coffin, there were also some statues of ancient Egyptian gods unearthed.

According to relevant reports, the owners of these wooden coffins are all ancient Egyptians and sacrificial personnel. And experts believe that these wooden coffins are very old, at least 2500 years old.

According to Egypt's Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Khaled Al Ahmed, said that the Egyptian archaeological team preliminarily determined that the owners of these wooden coffins were ancient Egyptian priests or **.

According to the analysis of archaeologists, the unearthed 59 wooden coffins are ancient Egyptian officials and some sacrificial personnel, in ancient Egypt, the status of officials and sacrificers is relatively high.