Who died here? Answer on Egyptian mystery comes 50 years later

Archaeologists deepened study on grave in Luxor. Amon-Mes was a high employee of the former Egypt.

It was also in the 1970s that a team of archaeologists discovered a grave in the necropolis of al-amasif, in Luxor, in the Egypt.

The tomb was carved in stone, received the designation “Kampp23”. The local architecture plan has a “T” format, and a corridor that goes from the chapel to the funeral chamber.

The enclosure also has niches carved on the walls around the entrance; An open courtyard – surrounded by three sides by brick walls – and statues carved from the stone, the cross hall and the chapel, describes the.

But over half a century, the doubt has persisted: Who had died there? Or at least who had been buried in that place?

50 years later, an answer came: the tomb was built for the former “mayor” of Thebes, Amon-Mes.

AMON-MEMES ruled during the Raméssida period (1295–1070 BC), will have had several different titles, being High employee of the former Egypt.

The discovery was now by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiques of Egypt, who added that in various places scattered in the western zone of Luxor, they have been discovered Other archaeological pieces and sculptures, with other titles of a person named Amor-Mas.

Although, he admits, it is not certain that these titles belong to the owner of Kampp23 cemetery.

There is some evidence of reuse of the grave. The mission found remains of colorful plaster to plug the inscriptions on the walls of limestone, remains of the sides of the main entrance built by various materials, and parts of some archaeological findings, such as statues – which served to be “servants” to the deceased, in life after death.

This archaeological mission, which gathered experts from Egypt and Canada, was the first to make excavations within this tomb since its discovery over 50 years ago.