February
18
/ 2020
Experts at Harvard University in the United States have made an astonishing discovery in a 3,000 year-old Egyptian coffin. They have found a painted image of an ancient deity inside a casket. It was found during a project to scan and document three ancient coffins, during a project to conserve the coffins and to make them more accessible to the public. Professor Peter Der Manuelian, an Egyptologist and director of the Harvard Semitic Museum led a week-long study of three coffins. The three Egyptian coffins “date from Twenty-Second Dynasty of Egypt, also known as the Bubastite Dynasty, (945‒712 BC) and came to the museum from modern-day Thebes, Egypt, between 1901 and 1902” reports the Harvard Gazette. One coffin belonged to
