Egypt reopens Amenhotep III’s tomb after 20 years
While preparing for the official opening of the Great Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, he re -opened a Pharaoh grave in Luxor for more than twenty years.
Between 1390 and 1350 BC, III. III.
Egyptian antiquities officials, in 1799 by two people and the sarcophagus, including the content, he said.
Mohamed Ismail, Secretary General of the Height Council, said that Pharaoh and his wife have been under a three -stage restoration project under the leadership of Japanese for the last twenty years, including renewing the paintings on the grave walls.
“This is a very fascinating grave,” Associated Press said to Associated Press at the scene.
The grave begins with a 14 -meter depth and a downward slope passage under the valley of the kings, 36 meters long.
For the king, one main grave room and spouses contain two other rooms for TİYE and Sitamun.
Ismail, unlike other ancient tombs in the valley, the grave was not fully decorated, he said.
His paintings show a group of ancient Egyptian gods and Amenhotep III, and the tomb room contains stage inscriptions from the Dead Book, a collection of spells aimed at directing the dead from the underground world in ancient Egypt.
According to the National Museum of the Egyptian Civilization, the mother of Amenhotep III was moved to the grave of the old priests to the grave of his grandfather Amenhotep II, at the same time in the valley of the kings.
Seriously damaged mummy is exhibited in the museum with 16 mummies of 17 kings and ancient Egyptian queens.
Amenhotep III, BC. B.C. Between 1550 and 1292 BC, known as the Great Amenhotep. Rulled between 1550 and 1292, he ruled the throne as a young man and reigned up to 38 years.
The reopening of the grave arrived less than a month before the official opening of the Great Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids.
The museum is planned to be opened on November 1st.
The re -opened are part of the efforts to withdraw more foreign visitors to revive the tourism sector, a large source of foreign exchange of Egypt.
Tourism, which is connected to the rich Pharaoh works of Egypt, experienced a long decline after political turmoil and violence following the 2011 uprising.
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