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Friday, 8 November 2024
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Thursday, 7 November 2024
Tomb of Egyptian governor’s daughter found in hidden side chamber

The tomb of Djefaihapi I dates to around 1880 B.C. He was the nomarch (provincial governor) of the 13th nome of Upper Egypt during the reign of 12th Dynasty pharaoh Senusret I. His monumental rock-cut tomb was a gift from the pharaoh and it was famous even in antiquity. The tomb has chambers over 36 feet high, up to 92 feet deep and 230 feet wide. The interior is decorated with inscriptions and paintings. Its inscriptions were considered theologically and linguistically important in ancient Egypt and copies of them circulated for 2,000 years.

Both coffins are adorned with unusually intricate images and texts describing the journey of the deceased in the afterlife. The decorations on the inside and outside of the coffins are more detailed than comparable objects from the same period and reflect the outstanding quality of the paintings and inscriptions at the tomb of Idy’s father. In particular, the wealth of texts – among them religious texts known as Coffin Texts, offering lists, and titles – will allow new insights into the position of women and the transfer of knowledge in ancient Egypt.
Other grave goods include wooden figurines, a dagger, pharaonic insignia, and food offerings. Another inscribed chest contained canopic jars, which were used to store Idy’s vital organs – such as her liver, spleen, lungs, and intestines – during mummification. Remnants of Idy’s garments and her bones, which were partially destroyed by looters, provide us with an initial impression of her life and health. Preliminary examinations of her remains indicate that Idy was about forty years old when she died.
The wooden coffins and other objects in Idy’s tomb have undergone an initial conservation to make it possible to remove them through the narrow vertical shaft without damage. Once they have been recovered, they will be handed over to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism for further study and preservation.
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Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Merovingian “Lady of Kölleda” burial chamber presented to the public

The grave was discovered during an archaeological excavation of a 20-hectare site slated for construction. Between 2017 and 2021, the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology (TLDA) unearthed more than 3,700 archaeological objects from 4,000 years of settlement of the area. Of particular note were 17 graves dating to the 6th and 7th centuries, a transition period when the Thuringian Kingdom, which collapsed in 531, became part of the Merovingian Frankish Empire.
The excavation also uncovered a settlement from the same period just 330 feet south of the burial ground. The remains of about 70 homes were unearthed. It is one of very few Merovingian villages discovered in central Germany, and the only one to be archaeologically excavated in its entirety with an associated burial ground.
The burial ground was unusual in several ways. Eleven decapitated horses were buried in seven pits next to the human dead. The graves were also atypical: dug exceptionally deep and containing well-crafted wooden burial chambers with grave goods including weapons, jewelry, glass vessels from the Rhine-Main area and bronze vessels of eastern Mediterranean manufacture. The bronze vessels are rare, and have only been found in Frankish territory in the graves of the nobility.

The entire burial chamber and surrounding earth were removed for excavation in the workshops of the TLDA. The total block removed weighed 13 tons and was 15 feet deep. It had to be encased in steel for transportation. It has been in the TLDA conservation laboratory since March of 2022, but excavation was delayed until late 2023 when specialized equipment and a new facility made it possible to handle so large a block.
Various scanning methods for 3D documentation of the individual excavation phases ensured the best possible recording of the exact position of the objects in the grave pit. The skeletal material and other particularly fragile objects were already consolidated with impregnating agents during the excavation. In the next step, the grave goods complexes were removed in smaller blocks and examined using computer tomography and other analysis methods. In this way, for example, very small objects (such as pearl necklaces) could already be identified and specifically exposed by the restorers.
The grave examined belonged to a woman aged around 25-30 years. The deceased had been buried with various food offerings and personal items. In particular, numerous gold and silver jewelry items as well as a chased bronze basin underline the outstanding social status of the deceased. The objects, of outstanding artistic quality, reveal far-reaching cultural relationships of members of this upper class as far as central Italy and the Mediterranean region.
The public is invited to view the Lady of Kölleda grave at the TLDA restoration workshop in Weimar on Saturday. Archaeologists will explain the complex excavation and their findings thus far.
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Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Dozens of amphorae from ancient shipwreck found off Sicily

The evidence of the wreck of an ancient cargo ship was first spotted in January 2022 by anglers from Avola about three miles off the coast of the Vendicari Nature Reserve in Syracuse. They reported it to Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea. The Superintendence employed divers from the Capo Murro Diving Center in Syracuse to explore and document the wreck site earlier this year. From scans and photographs made by the divers, experts were able to create a 3D photogrammetric composite of the whole site.

The Richborough 527 type amphora is characterized by a thick rim and horizontal ribbing on the body. Excavations on the Aeolian island of Lipari found the largest deposit of them, several thousands of examples, from the pottery workshop that produced these vessels from the 1st century B.C. through the 1st century A.D. Studies of the contents of Richborough 527 amphorae suggest they may have been used to transport alum from Sicily’s copious volcanic deposits to the rest of the Roman world.

Even though they were made in Sicily, the amphorae have not often been found in area shipwrecks, which makes sense if the ships were loaded with the cargo there and then sallied forth to their destinations. Richborough 527 amphorae or fragments of them have been found in many locations in the Roman world, including Spain, France, Portugal, Malta, Germany and most frequently, southern England.
“These are rather rare amphorae,” said the regional councilor for cultural heritage, Francesco Paolo Scarpinato, “whose discovery represents a unique opportunity to study both the cargo and the wreck in greater depth. This discovery will allow us to acquire new information on ancient trade routes and the commerce of valuable goods in the Mediterranean.” Future studies will verify whether the amphorae are of the same type as those found in the 1990s in Lipari, linked to the trade of alum, a mineral whose extraction is documented in ancient times. If this hypothesis were confirmed, the discovery would enrich our knowledge of ancient trade routes in the Mare Nostrum basin.
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Monday, 4 November 2024
Middle Kingdom tomb with fine jewelry found in Luxor necropolis

Among the finds are beautiful necklaces, bracelets, armlets, scarab rings and girdles made of amethyst, carnelian, garnet, blue-green glazed faience, and feldspar. The amulets incorporated into the jewelry include hippo heads, hawks, ba amulets, wedjat eyes, Taweret amulets, and a snake head, among others.
A necklace of 30 amethyst barrel beads with an amazonite ba amulet in the center, and a girdle of carnelian ball beads connected by double strings of blue faience ring beads are some of the most exquisite pieces among the found jewelry.


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Another important find is a green-blue glazed faience fertility figurine with truncated legs. It is well-modelled and decorated with a variety of jewelry and lozenge markings on the legs and torso. Her cropped hair is painted black. The head is pierced with holes arranged in three sections. The holes were intended for the attachment of “hair”. Almost 4000 mud beads found next to the figurine constituted her original hair.
An offering tray associated with the burials is of a square shape with a low border and a water channel in the middle surrounded with relief representations of a bull’s head, ribs, leg, loaf of bread and other offerings.



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