4,300-year-old tomb of Egyptian official spotlights Pharaonic bureaucracy
The mighty ancient Egypt is not just about the great pharaohs, queens and wars. It is also about hundreds of officials who helped the monarch to run this powerful empire. Not much is known about these officials.
Now archaeologists have found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a man called Mehtjetju -- an official who professes to have access to “secret” royal documents -- states a report in livescience.com. The location of this tomb is next to the Djoser’s Step Pyramid, which was built 4,700 years ago in Saqqara.
The hieroglyphs in the tomb as per Kamil Kuraszkiewicz in a statement said: "The dignitary bore the name Mehtjetju and was, among other things, an official with access to royal sealed — that is secret — documents.” Kamil Kuraszkiewicz is a professor at the University of Warsaw's faculty of Oriental Studies.
Finding the tomb of an official next to the Step Pyramid – the first one to be constructed by the ancient Egyptians -- is not strange. The reason is that Djoser "was an important and revered king from the glorious past”, and many officers of the Empire, even hundreds of years later, were keen to be buried next to his pyramid explained Kuraszkiewicz to Live Science.
Comments
Post a Comment