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Luxor city/ Valley of the kings.A deep burial shaft was discovered during a routine cleaning carried out by a
Swiss archaeological mission on the path leading to King Tuthmosis III’s tomb
in the Valley of the Kings. It led to a burial chamber filled with a treasured
collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The tomb dates back to the 22nd
Dynasty (945-712 BC) and it belongs to the daughter of Amun Re, a lector priestess
in Karnak
temples and also the singer of the God Amun Re. Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister of
State for Antiquities, said a wooden sarcophagus painted black and decorated
with hieroglyphic texts, and a wooden stelae engraved with the names and
different titles of the deceased were discovered. (Egypt travel news.)
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