Preliminary results revealed substances used in mummification, including tar, cedar resin, beeswax, and animal fat.Further excavations at the site are scheduled for winter 2020, according to the ministry. For those unable to afford prohibitively high rents in Egypt's capital, the burial chambers provide shelter for thousands like her. As the tops and bottoms of each were separated, the two parts had to be removed entirely to the laboratory, or the bottom had to be lowered back into the sarcophagus. The Mission examined the content of Didibastet’s two extra canopic jars using a computerized tomography (CT) scan, and the preliminary analysis of the images indicates that the two jars contain human tissue. The best known ‘wild man’ phenomena of today is the Sasquatch or Big Foot of North AmericaWootz steel was amongst the finest in the world. "The World Heritage Centre is following up with the Egyptian authorities to review the matter and assess any potential impacts on the Outstanding Universal Value, authenticity and integrity of the property," it added.On social media, Egyptians have documented the urban destruction with photos of their family vaults as well as historic ones.A Twitter user with the handle @morocropolis said his maternal family had maintained a vault in Qunsah Street since the 1940s.He declined to give his full name fearing his criticism of the highway project would land him in trouble.The authorities "told us that they needed part of the women's burial chamber, but they started to destroy the fence and the tombstones before the remains were moved," he told AFP.He said he will not be eligible for compensation since the crypt was partially, rather than fully, destroyed.Egypt's ministry of antiquities defended the work undertaken in the cemetery last month and said "there was no destruction of monuments".But Menna said she is haunted by the disturbed bodies. An unexpected difficulty was the heaviness of the three coffins and mummy; combined, they weight more than a ton and a half.The floral wreaths and funerary garlands decorating the coffins included olive, willow, mandrake, cornflowers and Cleaning the blackened unguents from the third coffin solved the mystery of the ponderous weight. With inlays of semiprecious stones, this inner coffin was formed of solid gold one-tenth to one-eight of an inch thick.Most of the objects removed from the burial chamber had been made specifically for the last rites and Immediately upon entering the burial chamber on February 17, 1923, A modern scaffolding aided in dismantling the fragile shrines.

After studying the texts on the coffins and sarcophagi in the burial chambers, the mission identified priests and priestesses of a mysterious snake goddess, known as A priestess and a priest of Niut-shaes, who were buried in the same burial chamber, were possibly Egyptianized immigrants. Hidden chambers near Tutankhamun's 3,400-year-old tomb are discovered by archaeologists in Egypt's Valley of the Kings Researchers found a corridor leading off from the main burial chamber … about Mysterious “Black Goo” Of Egyptian Burials Demystified about Top 15 Interesting Facts About Ancient Egypt That You May Not Know about Holy Bin Chickens: Ancient Egyptians Tamed Wild Ibis for Sacrifice about Did Ancient Egyptians Actively Hunt Crocodiles for Mummification? Our open community is dedicated to digging into the origins of our species on planet earth, and question wherever the discoveries might take us. “We learn from several papyri that there was a class of priests and embalmers who were paid to arrange for the funeral of a deceased including the mummification of her/his body and the purchase of a grave or a coffin." Tutankhamen's Tomb. Among the buried treasures unearthed at the complex in 2018, archaeologists found a silver face mask gilded with gold and eyes made from calcite, obsidian and black gemstone.