The analysis of burials in the Archaeological Site of Tombos suggests that low -statute workers were also deserving a place in the pyramid tombs.
The Archaeological Site of Tombos, in present -day Sudan, was under Egyptian rule about 3500 years ago. There were found the ruins in ruins of at least five clay brick pyramids.
Now, after a decade of study of this place, a team from the Netherlands has realized that the bone who were at the scene (since Egyptian royalty was usually buried in pyramids), they belonged not only to those who thought.
The team, according to A, realized that these remains belonged to people who had done a lot low physical activity during their lives, and others belonged to people who, on the other hand, had been extremely active.
“At first, we don’t realize what the data meant,” says lead author Sarah Schrader. It was his American colleague Stuart Tyson Smith who risked a hypothesis, which was confirmed.
Unjustly active individuals should be nobles who lived in luxury – And active individuals should be non-elite who worked hard. This challenges a longtime assumption in Egyptology, that the monumental tombs were exclusively reserved for the nobles.
“I think we took over for too long that the pyramids were only for the rich,” says Schrader.
There are those who hope that, to increase their statute, some Egyptian nobles could like to stay in shape, but the authors of the published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology They counter argument that there are several evidence that the Egyptian elite had life forms very different from the commoner, regarding the activity.
And an archaeologist who was not involved in the study, believes that this proof can reflect a more common practice than we imagine. “There is evidence that in other places high employees were buried near the servants“He guarantees.
