A joint Egyptian-American team has unearthed a royal tomb from the Second Intermediate Period in the necropolis at Abydos. The tomb was discovered 23 feet underground and features a limestone burial chamber with an 18-foot-tall vaulted mudbrick ceiling. The goddesses Isis and Nephthys are depicted on the walls on either side of the burial chamber. There are traces of hieroglyphic texts that once bore the deceased king’s name, but these are currently undecipherable. Experts hypothesize that the tomb may belong to a predecessor of King Senebkay, whose tomb was discovered in Abydos in 2014. The new discovery will help scholars understand the little-known “Abydos Dynasty” that ruled Upper Egypt between 1700 and 1600 BC.
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