About less than 3 months ago in discovery in South Abydos, in Egypt – in the remains of the pharaoh, Senekbay, which date to the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1750-1550 BC) – sheds new light on a complex and divided amount of Egyptian history.
The cartouche of Senebkay, from inside the newly-discovered tomb
Few months ago,a piece from an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus was given to Ministry of Antiquities from a French citizen as
the French citizen offered Egypt an ancient carttonnage from a painted sarcophagus he was inherited from his grandfather.
Minister of State for Antiquities, Mohamed Ibrahim, announced that this piece is 19cm long and the Ministry of Antiquities is working together with the Egyptian Embassy in Paris to bring the piece to Egypt this current week.
Official at the Egyptian antiquities,s Ministry said
that they discovered a new temple or cemetery dating back to the
Ptolemaic era in the village of Abu Qurqas southern of Minya province , about
240 kilometers south of Cairo, the bottom of a home belongs to one of the
citizens.
and it was about 3 or 2 days ago
the cemetery or temple includes
Mummification in ancient Egypt is considered as one secret embalming remains always more mysteries of the Pharaohs mysterious and exciting, and one of scientists who fascinated by the process of mummification (the English researcher Sleema Ataram), which explained that this process was carried out in the cemetery or near a range of workshops embalming. And begin steps to mummification process to transfer the body to the " IPO " is a tent where washing the body of the deceased with water and a small amount of salt, which is brought from the "Valley of Natron " was developed body of the deceased after removing his clothes on the table embalming and shed with water mixed with salt when cleansing the body was being transferred to " and played a Watt " or place fresh or to " Bernfr " a beautiful house, where he works sewn.. The process takes Threading 70 days since the announcement of the death and even enter the body to the cemetery, during this period, the viscera may be removed were dried and stuffed and wrapped in linen
the secrets of mummification of the Pharaohs