Archaeologists unearthed an historic tomb within the southern Egyptian metropolis of Luxor, identified for its treasures relationship again to the pharaohs, authorities mentioned Saturday.
Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, mentioned an Egyptian-British mission discovered the royal tomb in an historic website on the west financial institution of the Nile River in Luxor, 650 kilometers (400 miles) south of the capital of Cairo.
He mentioned preliminary examinations present that the tomb apparently belongs to the 18th Dynasty of Pharaonic Egypt, which spanned from 1550 B.C. to 1292 B.C.
The tomb is the most recent in a sequence of historic discoveries Egypt has touted lately in hopes of attracting extra vacationers. Egypt has been making an attempt to revive its tourism sector, a serious supply of international forex. The sector is closely reliant on the nation’s historic treasures.
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