{"id":25742,"date":"2018-12-16T07:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25742"},"modified":"2018-12-16T07:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T07:22:41","slug":"us-led-coalition-destroys-syrian-mosque-used-as-daesh-command-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25742","title":{"rendered":"US-led coalition destroys Syrian mosque used as Daesh command center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"73\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a priest dating back more than 4,400 years in the pyramid complex of Saqqara south of Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tomb belongs to Wahtye, a high priest who served during the fifth-dynasty reign of King Neferirkare. It is decorated with scenes showing the royal priest alongside his mother, wife and other members of his family.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt also contains more than a dozen niches and 24 statues of the priest and members of his family.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe priest\u2019s tomb \u201cis exceptionally well preserved, colored, with sculpture inside. It belongs to a high official priest,\u201d Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tomb was found in a buried ridge at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. It was untouched and unlooted, said Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. He described the find as \u201cone of a kind in the last decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nArchaeologists removed a last layer of debris from the tomb on Thursday and found five shafts inside, Waziri said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThey expect to make more discoveries when they excavate those on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI can imagine that all of the objects can be found in this area,\u201d he said, pointing at one of the shafts. \u201cThis should lead to a coffin or a sarcophagus of the owner of the tomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fifth dynasty ruled Egypt from about 2,500 to 2,350 BC, not long after the great pyramid of Giza was built. Saqqara was the necropolis for Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt for more than two millennia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a priest dating back more than 4,400 years in the pyramid complex of Saqqara south of Cairo. The tomb belongs to Wahtye, a high priest who served during the fifth-dynasty reign of King Neferirkare. It is decorated with scenes showing the royal priest alongside his mother, wife&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}