The team of archaeologists from Leuven Catholic University have accidentally found the intact tomb of an Egyptian courtier who lived about 4,000 years ago. The tomb is one of the best preserved of its time and was discovered while excavating a later burial site at the Deir al-Barsha necropolis near the Nile Valley town of Minya, 225 km south of Cairo.
The tomb belonged to Henu who was an estate manager and high-ranking official during the first intermediate period (from 2181 to 2050 BC).
Henu’s mummy was found wrapped in a large wooden coffin and a sarcophagus decorated with hieroglyphic texts addressed to the gods Anubis and Osiris.
Wooden statues of the workers making bricks, women making beer and pounding cereal and a model of a boat with rowers were there in the tomb. All these statues were well preserved. Also there were clay figures showing activities of daily life dating back to 2,100 B.C.
Source: Yahoo!
