The Autobiography of Weni the Elder (CG 1435) The Decree of Pepi I for the Pyramid City of Snofru (Berlin 17500) The False Door of Mehu in his tomb in Saqqara The Annal Stone (Palermo Stone and associated Fragments) The Cannibal Hymn (PT Utterances 273-274) The Inscriptions of the Statue of mTn / Metjen (Berlin 1106) List of indexed texts collected by Michael Tilgner:Ī Seal of Pharaoh Peribsen (in tomb P at Abydos) The best guide to online hieroglyphic texts can be found on EEF website: Jim Loy Egyptology pages - Gardiner's Sign List: 25 Z Strokes, signs derived from hieratic geometrical fiqures. 20 U Agriculture, crafts, and professions. 17 R Temple furniture and sacred emblems. Both are an absolute "must" for any serious study of ancient Egyptian writing."ġ A Man and his occupations. His book "Egyptian Grammar", and this list has become the standard in Egyptology. "English Egyptologist, Sir Alan Gardiner, compiled a list of 700 seperate signs used in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. "We have to thank the thieves," Hawass said." Thieves beat the archaeologists to the site of the new tombs, launching their own dig one summer night two months ago, before they were captured and jailed. He pointed out two hieroglyphs - an eye over a tusk, appearing frequently among the neat rows of symbols decorating the tombs' doors - that he said identify the men as dentists. They show that the ancient Egyptians "cared about the treatment of their teeth," Hawass said. "It seems for the first time that the ancient Egyptians made a cemetery to the dentist and they are buried in the shadow of the Step Pyramid," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said as he toured the site.Ībout 4,200 years old, the tombs honor a chief dentist and two other dentists, who served the royal families. SAQQARA, Egypt - Thieves led an Egyptian archaeological team to discover three tombs of dentists to the ancient kings, unveiled Sunday at the Saqqara pyramid complex south of Cairo.
The tomb also had earthenware containers bearing the doctor's name, a round limestone offering table and 22 bronze statues of gods. "The mask which covers the face of the mummy is in an amazing state of preservation in spite of slight damage in the area of the mouth."
"The linen wrappings and the funerary drawings on the mummy are still as they were," he said. Hawass said the lid of the wooden sarcophagus had excellent and well-preserved decoration and the mummy itself was in ideal condition. The 6th dynasty ruled from about 2350 to 2180 BC. The doctor, whose name was Qar, lived under the 6th dynasty and built his tomb near Egypt's first pyramid. The upper part of the tomb was discovered in 2000 at Saqqara, 20 km (12 miles) south of Cairo, and the sarcophagus came to light in the burial pit during cleaning work, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday, quoting Egyptian government antiquities chief Zahi Hawass. Resign yourself to a lifetime of poorly-paid obscurityĬAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the funerary remains of a doctor who lived more than 4,000 years ago, including his mummy, sarcophagus and bronze surgical instruments. Draughtsmanship, surveying, micro-botany, photography, material conservation, epigraphy, digital design, cartography, computing - these are just a few of the skills that are required on a modern archaeological mission (although not all necessarily by the same person). These days archaeologists are highly qualified, technically skilled professionals - simply being able to poke around in the ground with a trowel is no longer enough. Gone are the days of the enthusiastic amateur - men such as 19 th Century businessman Heinrich Schliemann who, having made a fortune contracting during the Crimean War, decided to turn his hand to excavating and, at Mycenae and Troy, made some of the most spectacular discoveries in the history of archaeology. Mind you, if you find yourself digging somewhere hot then an Indiana Jones Fedora might come in useful.
Excavators these days are far more likely to be armed with a theodolite and laptop than a whip and pistol, so if you are working on the assumption that archaeology = glamour you're going to be sorely disappointed. It might have got Indiana Jones out of a scrape or two, but then Indiana Jones has little if anything to do with real archaeology. NEWS: "Egypt archaeologists find sarcophagi near p.Possible discovery of a new tomb in the Valley of.Introducing Egyptian Hieroglyphs by C.I.Robbers Discovered Pharaoh’s Dentists’ Graves!.Egypt finds 4,000-year-old doctor's mummy.