I want to repeat, as I always do: it’s wrong to dig up people’s graves, no matter how long they’ve been dead, and I think there should be laws against it.
At the very least, the media should not celebrate digging up and robbing people’s graves.
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a cache of treasures—including more than 50 wooden sarcophagi, a funerary temple dedicated to an Old Kingdom queen and a 13-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll—at the Saqqara necropolis, a vast burial ground south of Cairo, according to a statement from the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiques.
As first reported by Al-Ahram, Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and his colleagues discovered the coffins, which appear to date back to the New Kingdom era (1570–1069 B.C.), in 52 burial shafts measuring 33 to 40 feet deep. Paintings of ancient gods and excerpts from the Book of the Dead, which was thought to help the deceased navigate the afterlife, adorn the sarcophagi.
Hawass tells CBS News’ Ahmed Shawkat that researchers first started excavating the site, which stands next to the pyramid of King Teti, first of the Sixth Dynasty rulers of the Old Kingdom (2680–2180 B.C.), in 2010.
“[B]ut we didn’t find a name inside the pyramid to tell us who the pyramid belonged to,” he adds.
Now, reports Agence France-Presse, experts have finally identified the complex—which boasts a stone temple and three mud-brick warehouses that housed offerings and tools—as the tomb of Teti’s wife, Queen Naert. Around a month ago, the team found Naert’s name etched onto a wall in the temple and written on a felled obelisk near the entrance of the burial, per CBS News.
“I’d never heard of this queen before,” Hawass says to CBS News. “Therefore, we add an important piece to Egyptian history, about this queen.”
What a stupid statement from the bonehead Hawass. Why would he say that, other than because he’s a moron?
Zahi Hawass has been a villain of the conspiracy movement and various alternative history figures for decades. He is ostensibly covering up a bunch of hidden archaeology. Having read a lot of it, I’m relatively convinced that he is part of a conspiracy of some kind to present the history of Egypt in a way that is in line with certain historical consensuses, but I’m not certain.
I am certain that this grave digging is disgusting, and I think they should stop doing it. The reason that this wasn’t done 100 years ago is that the British wouldn’t do it. If someone dug up your grandma’s grave, pulled her clothes off, and started dissecting her – you’d be pissed. The fact that these people have been buried for years shouldn’t mean that it is okay to dig up their graves. They obviously intended for these burials to be permanent, and I think it is obvious that those wishes should be respected, regardless of the fact that the Egyptian civilization no longer exists.
This having been said, I don’t think the pyramids are a grave (as the official historians claim), nor do I think the complexes under them are grave-related, and I do think that the Egyptian authorities should stop cock-blocking people from investigating this.
Here are the pictures from the latest grave robbery: