January
08
/ 2025
Explorers in Egypt continue to discover new tombs from ancient times, and just a few days into 2025 they have already found a 4,000-year-old grave that is most unique. In fact the individual who was entombed there might be one of the most colorful and interesting characters to be given the honor of a royal burial in ancient Egypt. In Saqquara, the site of the ancient capital city of Memphis, 25 miles (32 kilometers) from Cairo, a team of archaeologists from a joint French-Swiss mission located the tomb of a renowned healer known as Teti Neb Fu. This individual, who lived during the reign of the Old Kingdom’s first Sixth Dynasty ruler, the pharaoh Pepi II, functioned as both a
