A group of archaeologists They found a pharaonic tomb near the Egyptian capital of Cairo. In it they discovered historical mummies and nine statues dating from 4,300 years, which became the largest collection found in the country. But the most surprising thing is that they belonged to a man named Messi.
The team found a mummy in the tomb that could be the oldest and “complete” discovered in the country so far. This was at the bottom of a well. 15 metrosbelonging to a group of tombs of the fifth and sixth dynasties, recently discovered near the Saqqara Step Pyramid.
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The mummy, identified as a man named Hekashepeswas covered with gold leaf inside a limestone sarcophagus that had been sealed with mortar, facilitating its better conservation through the years.
“This mummy may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date,” explained Hawass, one of the world’s most celebrated Egyptologists and a former Egyptian minister of antiquities.
Among the discoveries, the specialists also found nine statues belonging to the pharaohswhich are currently the largest collection found in Egypt in all history. Among them one could see one that represented a man and his wife, together with several servants.
Messi, protagonist of an incredible archaeological find
But, the detail that drew attention was not the collection of statues or the state of the mummy, the most striking thing was that in the discovery they found a false door with the name “Messi“, although it has nothing to do with the captain of the Argentine National Team.
This is how Hawass related it: “In the same area where we found the nine statues, there was a false door. This door It belongs to a certain Messi: not to the one from Argentina who won the World Cup, to another Messi. This Messi lived about 4300 years ago. From this we can conclude that the statues belong to the one called Messi”.
In addition, archaeologists unearthed three other tombs, including that of Khnumdjedefan inspector of officials, overseer of nobles, and priest during the reign of Nail, last pharaoh of the fifth dynasty. Another belonging to Meri, “guardian of the secrets and assistant to the great leader of the palace” and the third corresponding to another priest.
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Another incredible find in Egypt: a Roman city of almost two millennia
Recently, an archaeological mission carried out in southern Egypt announced the discovery of “a complete residential city” which dates from the time of Roman empire. This discovery was made during excavation work on the eastern bank of the Nile River, in the historic city of Luxor.
As explained by Mostafa Waziri, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquitiesthe discovery provides information about “the most important and ancient residential city on the eastern shore of the province of Luxor, which is considered an extension of the ancient city of Thebes”, capital of the Ancient Egypt in the times of the Middle and New Empires.
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In addition, he explained that during the excavation “several residential buildings and two dovecotes of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, in addition to several workshops for the manufacture and foundry of metals” with “vessels, water bottles, jars, ceramic lamps, grinding utensils, as well as Roman copper and bronze coins”.
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