{"id":25802,"date":"2018-12-16T21:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25802"},"modified":"2018-12-16T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:22:33","slug":"4400-year-old-tomb-discovered-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25802","title":{"rendered":"4,400-year-old tomb discovered in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"78.7249315068\">\n<p><cite class=\"Paragraph__cite\">(CNN) \u2014 <\/cite><span>A more than 4,000-year-old private tomb containing &#8220;exceptionally well-preserved&#8221; drawings has been discovered south of Cairo, according to Egypt&#8217;s Ministry of Antiquities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said the tomb had been discovered at the Saqqara archaeological site and was from the 5th dynasty of the pharaohs, which ruled roughly 4,400 years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The tomb belonged to a royal purification priest known as &#8220;Wahtye,&#8221; al-Anani said in a statement. Inscriptions suggested the priest had served during the reign of King Nefer-Ir-Ka-Re and was the king&#8217;s supervisor and inspector of the holy boat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Al-Anani said the tomb&#8217;s walls were decorated with colored scenes depicting Wahtye with his mother, wife and family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The head of the excavation mission, Mostafa Waziri, said other drawings showed wine and pottery making, musical performances, sailing, hunting and the manufacture of funeral furniture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waziri said his team had reached the tomb in November but that it had taken some time to enter as its doors were sealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some 50 niches inside the bomb also contained colored statues carved in rock, including of a person standing or in the scribe position, Waziri said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This statue might belong to the deceased or a member of his family,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The general director of the site, Sabry Farag, said the tomb was about 10 meters (33 feet) long and 3 meters (10 feet) wide, with a basement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It also contained five burial shafts, Waziri said, which will be the subject of further excavations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Saqqara is also home to the famous Step Pyramid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CNN&#8217;s Mohammed Tawfeeq and Sheena Jones contributed to this report.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 A more than 4,000-year-old private tomb containing &#8220;exceptionally well-preserved&#8221; drawings has been discovered south of Cairo, according to Egypt&#8217;s Ministry of Antiquities. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said the tomb had been discovered at the Saqqara archaeological site and was from the 5th dynasty of the pharaohs, which ruled roughly 4,400 years ago. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802","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=25802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}