EGYPT 216 -TUNA EL GEBEL II - (by Egyptahotep)
TUNA EL GEBEL is near Minya, was the necropolis of the city of Hermopolis, This zone was a place with specialy adoration to the god Thoth. It is best known for the sprawling catacombs at the foot of the western cliffs, where thousands of ibises and baboons (dedicated to Thoth) and other sacred animals were buried from the New Kingdom multitudes of ibises and baboons, (Besides fish, pigs, dogs, cats, goats,, falcons, larks, and kestrels, all mummified and placed into pottery jars). Potsherds and torn and broken mummies are still strewn in the passages today.
Another main attraction of the site is the early Ptolemaic tomb of a high priest of Thoth named Petosiris, decorated with reliefs in a blend ofGreek and Egyptian styles. Petosiris's wooden coffin, exquisitely inlaid with colored glass hieroglyphs, can be seen in the Egyptian Museum.
Oter main place also are the chapel & Tomb of Isadora, and the famous mummy of her, she was a young woman who drowned in the second century BC. (Her mummy is into a glass case in her tomb.)
The oldest monument at Tuna el Gebel is a stele marking the northwest boundary of Akhenaten's city at Amarna, partway up a slope north of Hermopolis West. It bears scenes of Akhenaten and Nefertiti worshipping the sun disk (Aten) and is carved with an extensive text describing the founding of the city.
Egyptian archaeologists uncover necropolis with 17 mummies
MINYA, Egypt — An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley city of Minya, in the first such find in the area, the antiquities ministry said Saturday.
The discovery was made in the village of Tuna al-Gabal, a vast archaeological site on the edge of the western desert. The area hosts a large necropolis for thousands of mummified ibis and baboon birds as well as other animals. It also includes tombs and a funerary building.
“It’s the first human necropolis to be found here in Tuna al-Gabal,” Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani told reporters at the site, 135 miles south of Cairo. The mummies were elaborately preserved therefore likely belong to officials and priests, he said.
The new discovery also includes six sarcophagi, two clay coffins, two papyri written in demotic script as well as a number of vessels, he said.
The necropolis, which is eight yards below ground level, dates back to the Late Period of Ancient Egypt and the Greco-Roman period, the minister noted.
Pointing to the edges of the necropolis where legs and feet of other mummies could be seen, the minister said that the find “will be much bigger,” as work is currently in only a preliminary stage.
The discovery comes as Egypt struggles to revive its tourism sector, partially driven by antiquities sightseeing, which was hit hard by political turmoil since the 2011 uprising.
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