Henu's 4000 years old tomb discovered in Egypt


	Henu's 4000 years old tomb discovered in Egypt

invictus

5-21-2007 11:12 AM

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archaeology, egypt, henu

invictus says:

The tomb belongs to Henu, an important administrative figure of the First Intermediate Period (late 3rd millennium BCE)

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Belgian archaeologists have discovered
the intact tomb of an Egyptian courtier who lived about 4,000
years ago, Egypt's culture ministry said on Sunday.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070520/sc_nm/egypt_discovery_dc"><P>The team from Leuven Catholic University accidentally found
the tomb, one of the best preserved of its time, while
excavating a later burial site at the Deir al-Barsha necropolis
near the Nile Valley town of Minya, south of Cairo.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070520/sc_nm/egypt_discovery_dc"><P>The tomb belonged to Henu, an estate manager and
high-ranking official during the first intermediate period,
which lasted from 2181 to 2050 BC and was a time of political
chaos in ancient Egypt.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070520/sc_nm/egypt_discovery_dc"><P>The archaeologists found Henu's mummy wrapped in linen in a
large wooden coffin and a sarcophagus decorated with
hieroglyphic texts addressed to the gods Anubis and Osiris.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070520/sc_nm/egypt_discovery_dc"><P>The tomb contained well-preserved painted wooden statuettes
of workers making bricks, women making beer and pounding
cereal, and a model of a boat with rowers, a ministry statement
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