Egyptian Archaeologists Find Goldsmith’s 3,500-Year-Old Tomb<br />That’s probably why their heads are uncovered." He added, "But we are extremely happy anyway, because this means<br />that we will find more tombs in this area." Mr. Waziri said his team also found another burial shaft just outside Amenemhat’s tomb, which contained three other mummies from a later period.<br />10, 2017<br />His name was Amenemhat, and he lived in Egypt about 3,500 years ago, toiling away<br />as a royal goldsmith whose work was dedicated to an ancient Egyptian sun god.<br />After five months of digging under an unforgiving sun, a team of Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the tomb<br />belonging to the goldsmith who had lived in the desert province of Luxor, the authorities said on Saturday.<br />The chamber also contained pottery, wooden funerary masks and ushabti figurines, which are small blue, black or white statues<br />that ancient Egyptians placed in tombs to serve the dead in the afterlife.<br />Authorities hope that a recent surge in discoveries will attract tourists back to the country, after many people were put off by the protests<br />that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and a string of bombings and terror attacks.<br />Swedish archaeologists also discovered 12 cemeteries near the southern city of Aswan that date almost 3,500 years ago.<br />The discovery was a relatively modest one, but in a country<br />that has been trying to revive its tourism industry, which has been decimated by political strife and terrorist attacks after the 2011 uprising, officials announced the find with fanfare.
