Archaeology Climbing Gold Panning Shipwrecks Treasure Hunting
  

Secret tunnels and ancient mysteries

November 1, 2009

in Archaeology

E 114SP Secret tunnels and ancient mysteries

When the famous explorer Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I in 1817, he knew that it represented a very developed example of a New Kingdom royal tomb.

Not only was it the longest, deepest and most completed tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings, but its walls were painted with fine scenes in full colour featuring the great pharaoh in various positions before the gods and with his family.

Inside the burial chamber Belzoni found a calcite anthropoid sarcophagus and a fragment of a canopic chest that used to hold the internal organs, and is now on display at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London.

More

Seti I (Wikipedia)

Secrets of Ancient Egypt Secret tunnels and ancient mysteries

Secret of the Sands Secret tunnels and ancient mysteries

The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes Revealed Secret tunnels and ancient mysteries

Related Posts with Thumbnails

blog comments powered by Disqus

Previous post:

Next post: