A group of 45 ancient Egyptian tombs has recently been discovered at Lahun, which is south of Cairo in the Fayum. There are four seperate cemeteries, one that dates back to the first and second dynasties and is composed of 14 tombs, one which dates from the Middle Kingdom containing 31 tombs, one from the New Kingdom and one from the Late Period.
One of the tombs from the first and second dynasty cemetery has been discovered almost completely intact with all its funerary equipment and a sarcophagus containing a mummy. Many of the other tombs were also found to contain mummies still within their wooden painted sarcophagi. One of the tombs dating to the 18th dynasty was found to have 12 painted wooden sarcophagi piled on top of one another.
Read on to find out more about the discovery of amazing new tombs at Lahun
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Tuesday, 1 June 2010
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