Archaeologists Discover Secrets Under the ‘Pyramid’ That Change Everything We Thought About Ancient Egypt
Archaeologists have found significant evidence at an Egyptian colonial site in Nubia that could radically change the way. We think about ancient Egyptian civilization.
New discoveries shake up understanding of ancient Egypt
The latest discovery by archaeologists has completely changed the view of Egyptian civilization, and it’s all about the “pyramids”.
To date, scientists have found more than 110 ancient Egyptian pyramids, spread across more than 3,000 years of civilization.
Long-held historical assumptions about the Egyptian pyramids have recently been refuted following new discoveries in the Tombos area, now in Sudan, formerly Nubia.
The area is located in southern Egypt and was conquered. By Pharaoh Thutmose I around 1500 BC before being ruled by the Egyptian Empire for the next four centuries.
Discoveries in the Tombos pyramid
Archaeologists have rewritten the rules. When it comes to pyramids while exploring a burial site at the ancient village of Tombos.
In the past, it was believed that the แทงบอล UFABET ราคาดีที่สุด ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ pyramids were the burial sites of people with high social status and wealth who could afford such burial ceremonies.
But the discoveries at Tombos have shown that working-class people were also given the right to be buried in ancient Egyptian pyramids.
Sarah Schrader from Leiden University in the Netherlands, who has been working at the site for 10 years, has discovered what the Tombos pyramid burials did in real life.
Analysis of their remains reveals a wide range of status and occupations among those buried in the pyramid.
What the pyramid ruins tell us
The bones found in the pyramid belong to people who did not work hard all their lives. But some remains were found that show hard work.
“Our findings suggest that a pyramid once thought to be the burial site of the highest social class may have also contained the burials of lower-status, hard-working employees.” The study said, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
“At first we didn’t understand what the data meant.” Sarah Schrader said, adding: “For too long we thought the pyramid was for the elite only.”
Some have suggested that the highly active remains belong to nobles who were preserved in good condition, but Schrader is skeptical of this theory. Saying that archaeological evidence from across ancient Egypt suggests that high-status individuals had very different activity patterns than ordinary people.
Burial in a pyramid
When Tombos came under the rule of Ancient Egypt. It was at the height of Egyptian civilization.
But during this heyday, the royal family turned away from pyramid burials. Which had been their favorite place to be after death.
Instead of pyramids, their burials were in tombs dug into the rock, similar to those found in the Valley of the Kings.