Iufaa
Iufaa was an Egyptian whose tomb was recently discovered at Abusir. Through the excavation of his tomb, archeologists have found much information about the Egyptians and about the Persians when they occupied Egypt. Czech archeologists opened his tomb February28, 1998. Through gathering information about his tomb, they found that he was about thirty years old when he died. Iufaa was lector priest and controller of the palace of Pharaoh Ankhkaenre Psamtik during the twenty-sixth dynasty. The Persian ruler Cambyses dethroned the pharaoh. Czech archeologists from the Institute of Egyptology found his tomb. Miroslav Verner headed their team. He said that the mummy was the most intact mummy that he had ever seen. Miroslav Verner and his team started the excavation process in 1995. Verner said the tomb had remained undisturbed for twenty- five hundred years. Verner also said he expects to find more rooms. The mummy had disintegrated badly and it was dried out. The mummy that was two thousand five hundred years old from 525 BCE had fungus spreading all over it. When Verner and his team opened the tomb, they found that there were neither jewels nor gold in the tomb. The walls of
On the walls of his tomb were scenes of funeral beliefs. Ancients did this to hopefully give the dead person a good afterlife. Ancients would place many other items in the tomb of Iufaa. They put canopic jars, furniture and pottery all around Iufaa's tomb. Iufaa's coffin was lying at the bottom of a shaft at 82 feet. Many people wonder how the ancients lower a 55- ton stone? They used narrow side shafts which connected to main shaft. All three of the shafts were filled with sand. Atop the main shaft were the sarcophagi. The load descended as the workers removed sand from inside the shafts. Iufaa's wooden coffin had decayed. Iufaa's mummy was not kept dry. Archaeologist believe Iufaa may have been decaying for centuries. Below Iufaa's collar on his tomb was the winged goddess, Nut and the sons of Horace, who were the protectors of the deceased.(National Geographic-November 1998 110-113). Before opening Iufaa's tomb, archaeologists were hoping that they could find another intact Egyptian tomb like Tutankhamen's tomb, which was discovered in 1923. They were surprised when they saw that his tomb was well preserved and undisturbed more many years. Many archaeologist, including Verner, are astonished about the discovery of Iufaa since his tomb was the first tomb found intact since Howard Carter opened Tutankhamen's tomb in 1923. the tomb were covered with hieroglyphics, spells, and invocation prayers of the ancient text. There was also prayers from the Book of the Dead on the walls. After Verner and his team lifted the two-ton lid of the outer sarcophagus, they found an inner sarcophagus of black-green rock, whose lid was decorated with someone's
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