In the past few months, a sensational discovery has been made by archaeologists in Egypt. Now you have opened in Luxor, a 3500-year-old sarcophagus – and the cameras were there.
In the Egyptian temple city of Luxor, there is history to touch and feel. At the beginning of November 2018 French and Egyptian archaeologists in the dead city of Al-Asasif in the vicinity of Luxor had discovered a new tomb. Now that you have discovered her secret in front of the press.
“Beautiful paintings”
Saturday, 24. November 2018: in Front of the Hatshepsut temple in Luxor, a celebration ceremony is held: The Egyptian Minister of antiquities, Khaled al-Enani told proud of the Fund and “very beautiful paintings” in the burial chamber. The real Sensation is the 3500-year-old sarcophagus and its contents.
The drawings have survived for the millennia
In the burial chamber of scientists and the press gather to live at the Opening of the sarcophagus to be (second picture above). All wear protective mask in case of toxic mold. Careful, the lid of the art is lifted fully decorated sarcophagus. In the Interior of a mummy – a woman who died in front of about 3500 years. It comes from the so-called 18. Dynasty – between the age of 16. and 13. Century BC
However, scientists have found yet more: for More sarcophagi from an even older time. Under 300 meters of debris and rubble, they discovered the tomb of a high official who lived about 4,000 years ago: it was Probably the then chief Mumifizerer Thau Irchet-If.
A sensational discovery after the other
The latest Fund is part of a series of excavations, which the archaeologists make a sensational discovery after the other.
These were well-heeled people from the vicinity of the pharaohs
April, 2017: In a well-preserved tomb from the time of the pharaohs eight mummies, colorful wooden sarcophagi, as well as about a thousand figurines out of clay discovering the archaeologists as grave goods. Age: About 3,500 Years.
February 2018: In the city of al-Minya (250 km South of Cairo) has been discovered by an Egyptian-German Team of an ancient dead city. To belong to her, old burial chambers, filled with numerous coffins, mummies and artifacts. Archaeologists say that the discovery is only the tip of the iceberg, since the excavations will continue at the site are expected to be five years.
The same time is found in Giza, an approximately 4000 year old tomb. The tomb belonged to a priestess by the Name of Bet, said antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enani. “The priestess has been estimated to be of their time.” The tomb come from the time of the fifth dynasty.
A death mask made of precious metal is regarded among scientists as a special rarity
July 2018: In Saqqara, South of Cairo, located, a team of researchers from the University of Tübingen is a partially gold-plated death mask, which is about 2600 years old – a Sensation, because many death masks made of Gold or silver have been stolen by robbers in the ancient times of the tomb. Therefore, it has been able to find only very few mummy masks made of precious metal.
Fascination Mummy
Like everything that has something to do with death,fascinated by a mummy, the people exactly as it repels you. No matter whether it comes from the ice, the Moor, or of an ancient burial chamber. In the 19th century. Century already existed in the refined circles of society in Europe, the so-called “mummy parties”, preferably, in the case of the English Lords, in which archaeologists, their findings were proud of handles presented and Egyptian mummies for the refreshment of the guests present.
Researchers put free the mummy of king Tutankhamun in 2007
Meanwhile, the finding of a Mummy is more than just an eerie Sensation. Long ago, scientists can find in the bone and tissue residues of DNA-traces, which provide information about the people that died there thousands of years ago. X-ray images and tomographic investigations can determine the cause of death – you gain exciting insights on life situations, nutrition, and diseases of the people of that time: If you have moved a lot or a little, whether you have eaten more meat, or more crops, whether she had a herniated disc, or tuberculosis. Today you can discover tattoos and find out which hue of hair were dyed. Many of the body characteristics also indicate the social Status of the Dead.
Different types of body preservation
Mummies arise in different ways: The 5200-year-old glacier mummy “Ötzi” is simply freeze-dried, after the man was injured by an arrow to be fatal.
“Ötzi” has eaten an hour before his death, a piece of Capricorn
In hot areas of the body to be mummified by the dry heat, a high salt content, or simply in the Sand. A bog body is preserved by acid: The bone of the living being to be descaled by the acid environment in the bog almost completely, and the bone structure is dissolved. In addition, through the skin of the humic and tannic acids, tissue, hair, cartilage and nails tanned, and thus preserved. To exempt such a bog body from her natural grave, you have to preserve again quickly, otherwise they will decompose quickly in air.
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Famous mummies and their historyLocation Saqqara
In one of the oldest and most important dead cities of Egypt, the researchers from Tübingen have found this gold-plated mask. It was in a damaged wooden coffin in Sakkara and is more than 2,500 years old. You are to a ancient Egyptian priest from the 26. Dynasty have heard. Particularly striking are the large eyes.
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Famous mummies and their historyAta
A is alien? This is a question many, as the body 2003 in the Chilean Atacama desert was found. Actually a documentary with the possible alien Fund employees. But the figure was a human being; on the basis of the size of only 15 centimeters, the researchers go by a preterm fetus with various bone and Skull malformations.
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Famous mummies and their historyTutankhamun
In 1922 the British Egyptologist Howard Carter in the valley of the kings discovered Tutankhamun in a nearly ungeplünderten tomb the mummy of the Pharaoh. For decades, researchers speculated whether the boy king was murdered – up to a study in computers in 2005, tomography, multiple fractures showed, which suggested that Tutankhamun and the hunting died in the accident.
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Famous mummies and their historyRosalia Lombardo
For almost 100 years, Rosalia is situated in the Capuchin crypt in Palermo, she died shortly before her second birthday of the Spanish flu. The girl looks like sleep it is only and is considered to be the most beautiful mummy in the world. Your Embalmers, for posterity, not traditional, as he managed to get her face in such a way. But researchers found that Alfredo Salafia formaldehyde used.
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Famous mummies and their historyThe fine company in the Capuchin crypt
In Palermo, but it is not only the most beautiful mummy in the world, but also Eerie: In the catacombs of the Capuchin monastery, the more well-to-do earlier in their clothes bury. As the friars discovered around 1600, the corpses were hardly decomposed, and put it on the walls, where they can be visited today.
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Famous mummies and their historyÖtzi
In 1991, a couple from Nuremberg, discovered while Hiking a glacier mummy in the Ötztal Alps (hence the Name). In 2000, scientists studied the natural freeze-drying conserved the Remains of stone age man, in order to clarify the cause of death. Presumably, the between 3359 and 3105 BC-born man died by a arrow attack.
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Famous mummies and their historyScythian Warrior
Only about half as old as Ötzi the Iceman in 2003 by an international research team in Mongolia, discovered in Scythian warrior. The Indo-European riding people that lived in the vast steppes of Eurasia. This ice-preserved mummy was dressed in a fur coat made of marmot fur, and felt boots.
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Famous mummies and their historyThe red Franz
1900 of a peat-cutters discovered the bodies of the man of New verses, the most famous of the today in lower Saxony, discovered 60 Moor. By the ingredients of the bog by the hair of the corpse in the course of 1,700 years of red, which earned him the nickname “red Franz” colored. The humus acid in the bog had preserved the body.
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Famous mummies and their historyThe Detmold Child Mummy
This baby mummy comes from Peru. It is named after the Lippe regional Museum in Detmold, the she had received in 1987, for proper preservation. The child who died of a heart defect, is one of the oldest mummies in the world, with more than 6500 years, it is even older than Tutankhamun and Ötzi.
In addition to the natural Preservations, there are the man-made mummification. In ancient Egypt, Embalmers made people were. They worked for up to 40 days at a corpse. The organs were removed, the body with straw, baking soda sachets, herbs and spices stuffed. Fats, resins or honey were added. Thus, the skull was not injured, pulled to the dead the brain by means of small hooks from the nose. Very tasty sounds, but was an effective antidote to the fast decay. Then the body was rubbed with resin – and finally, the linen cloths with which the dead were multiple coils.
Also in other cultures of the world bodies mummified were sewn In skins, with plaster poured over it, and embalmed. The Egyptian mummies are, however become almost synonymous with the Undead – and so you need to haunt around in mummy horror films, always as the Zombies in bandages.
The temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut at Luxor
Archaeological excavations could attract more tourists
Ancient Egypt fascinates people not only because of its mummies. Through the desert sand and the dry heat is so sensationally well-preserved artefacts from the ancient world fascinate scientists and visitors to the excavation sites alike. The Egyptian authorities had initiated in the past years, an ambitious series of archaeological projects. The spectacular finds of recent times in the excavation areas around Cairo and Luxor are not only from a scientific point of view, most gratifying. But also, because the new findings could lure you out of the mysterious pharaohs time, perhaps more tourists to the country.