Tue. Oct 15th, 2024

For the first time, archaeological expeditions in the Bahnasa region of Egypt succeeded in the Terracotta statues depicting the goddess Isis Aphrodite laying on her head a botanical wreath topped with a crown.

Archaeological discoveries continue in Egypt since the first days of the new year, and a few days ago the Japanese mission succeeded in discovering a cemetery in the Saqqara area, and later the Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona succeeded in uncovering a number of tombs dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras, and a number of mummies from the Roman era, during the excavations in the archaeological area of Al-Bahnasa in Minya Governorate.

The tombs that were discovered from the Roman era were found on the eastern side of the upper cemetery in Al-Bahnasa, which are tombs with a new style of burial, as they consist of a hole dug in the natural rock in the ground, and terracotta statues depicting the goddess Isis Aphrodite laying on her head a plant wreath topped by a crown, which indicates that the region still reveals many secrets and burial patterns during Different eras.

The expedition also found fragments of papyrus inside a clay seal, as well as a large number of mummies wrapped in colored scrolls, some of whose faces were covered with gilded and colourful funerary masks, and a golden tongue inside the mouth of two of them, a well-known ritual from the Roman era in Bahnasa to preserve the deceased.

The architectural design of the tombs at this site is a well of stone that ends with a closed door with mud bricks and leads to a large pit inside which a group of empty coffins and closed coffins covered with colored cartoons were found, and 23 mummified mummies were found outside the coffins, and 4 human-shaped coffins inside one of which there are two mummies and bottles of small votive perfumes.

The expedition also succeeded in uncovering a number of stone blocks belonging to a demolished building, a large number of which were decorated with plant drawings, clusters of grapes and groups of animals and birds such as pigeons and cobra snakes, and the mission will continue its work at the site during the coming excavation seasons, in an attempt to reveal more.

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