3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian tombs and chapel with ‘amazing’ decorations unearthed at Saqqara

Archaeologists in Egypt have found a number of tombs and chapels courting again round 3,300 years in an historic cemetery on the website of Saqqara. 

The most important tomb belonged to a person named “Panehsy” who was the “overseer of the temple of Amun,” Lara Weiss (opens in new tab), a curator of the Egyptian and Nubian assortment on the Netherlands’ Nationwide Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and creator of the e book “The Strolling Useless at Saqqara (opens in new tab)” (De Gruyter 2022), who is among the excavation leaders, instructed Dwell Science in an e mail.