[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/644511630_1493487062821709_4594068072853003355_n-957×720-1.jpg?w=957″]<\/p>\n
\n\tArcheologists working near Luxor have uncovered 22 painted wooden coffins containing mummies, according to the Daily News Egypt<\/em>, which reported the news in February. The well-preserved sarcophagi date to Egypt\u2019s Third Intermediate Period (1077\u2013664 BCE).<\/p>\n \n\tThe archeological mission, which was affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage and Antiquities, also found a group of eight papyrus scrolls, some with their seals intact, in a pottery jar.<\/p>\n \n\tThe discovery was made during excavation work at a previously known tomb in the Theban Necropolis, a site on the Nile\u2019s west bank where rulers, officials, and nobles were interred during Egypt\u2019s Pharaonic period. The presence of mummies in the coffins makes the find particularly significant, with Zahi Hawass, head of the mission, saying it provides new insights into the Third Intermediate Period.<\/p>\n \n\tCrowded into a rock-cut chamber, the sarcophagi were separated from their lids and stacked to save space, indicating that they were moved at some point from their original location. They largely bear professional titles rather than personal names, with the most common being \u201cChanter\u201d or \u201cChantress of Amun.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDuring the Third Intermediate Period, the god Amun had become one of Egypt\u2019s most powerful deities,\u00a0with the high priests of Amun at Thebes ruling Middle and Upper Egypt in all but name. Hisham El-Leithy, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said researchers are now working to solve the mystery of the cache, which offers new avenues of study into the importance of temple chanters to Amun\u2019s cult. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/3000-year-old-coffins-found-luxor-egypt-1234778598\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/644511630_1493487062821709_4594068072853003355_n-957×720-1.jpg?w=957″] Archeologists working near Luxor have uncovered 22 painted wooden coffins containing mummies, according to the Daily News Egypt, which reported the news in February. The well-preserved sarcophagi date to Egypt\u2019s Third Intermediate Period (1077\u2013664 BCE). The archeological mission, which was affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1845219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}