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  • New discoveries and studies from mummification workshop complex at Saqqara [26th Dynasty]

    05/05/2020 6:32:14 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 12 replies
    Ahram Online ^ | Sunday 3 May 2020 | Nevine El-Aref
    Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced that the newly discovered chamber contained four wooden coffins in poor state of preservation. Dr Ramadan Badri Hussein, archaeological supervisor at the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs, said that one of the coffins belongs to a woman called Didibastett. She was buried with six canopic jars, which contradicts with the custom in ancient Egypt which was to embalm the lungs, stomach, intestines and liver of the deceased, and then to store them in four jars under the protection of four gods, known as the Four Sons of Horus......