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An Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has uncovered a 4,300-year-old tomb near Cairo belonging to an ancient judge and his father, local authorities said.
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The tomb was found at Saqqara, a sprawling necropolis south of the capital, and dates back to the reign of Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi, one of the most influential rulers of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty who oversaw a period of administrative reform in the 24th century B.C., the Egyptian tourism and antiquities ministry said.
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ministry → find → B.C.
It was built for Yunmen, a high-ranking official whose duties included listening to the appeals of the kingdom's subjects and weighing their complaints before the state.
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duties → build → state
Amr al-Tayeb, director of the Saqqara archaeological site, told AFP that Yunmen's duties "align with the ancient Egyptian concept of Maat," the goddess and principle of truth, justice and social order.
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duties → tell → truth
The find was discovered during this summer's excavation season in the Mariette Cemetery area of northern Saqqara, as part of a long-running joint project by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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The newly discovered mastaba, a flat-roofed tomb typically built for elite officials, contains two funerary chapels: one for Yunmen and the other for his father, Ity, a senior scribe responsible for overseeing agricultural lands and offerings.
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mastaba → discover → lands
Yunmen's chapel is adorned with finely carved reliefs depicting farmers at work, servants carrying offerings and scenes associated with funeral rites.
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Many of the paintings have retained their original colors despite spending more than 40 centuries buried beneath the desert sands, the ministry said.
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"It features exceptionally well-preserved scenes," the ministry said on social media, while posting several images of the site.
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Archaeologists also uncovered an ornate facade covered with funeral inscriptions, alongside formal depictions of the tomb's owner.
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Archaeologists → uncover → owner
In the neighboring chapel, dedicated to Ity, traces of painted offering scenes survive, alongside a false door, a symbolic gateway through which the dead were believed to receive sustenance from the living.
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The discovery comes as Egypt seeks to promote new archaeological finds to support tourism, a key source of foreign currency for the country.
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dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries as it held an official opening ceremony for theThe plan was originally for the museum to open in 2010, but a series of events, including
, political , the pandemic and , delayed the curtain raising.
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