The remains of an ancient lost city in China, meanwhile, are transforming scientists' understanding of the country's history. In other ancient news, archaeologists recently discovered an ancient board game in the hidden chamber of a castle located in today's Russia. Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani recently encouraged visitors to see a recently-unearthed sphinx statue, Egypt Today previously reported. Tourism continues to suffer in Egypt following the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Officials have widely publicised recent archaeological discoveries such the remains of a Neolithic village. ' has huge ramifications for what we will be able to say about 'the real people' of Middle Kingdom Egypt, rather than just the royal family.' 'A discovery on this scale is incredibly exciting,' Fletcher said. 'From this area, there really aren't very many tombs that are known, except for the royal tombs there,' Kathryn Bard, an archaeologist at Boston University who was not involved in the work, told the publication. Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/Sarah Parcak This period also saw Osiris, god of the underworld, rise to prominence among the deities commonly worshipped in Egypt.Īrchaeologists explore the Lisht site, Egypt.

The Middle Kingdom, which stretched from about 2000 to 1650 B.C.E., is characterized by a 'blossoming' of art and culture, Parcak told National Geographic. By investigating and ultimately safeguarding the site-which has been known for illegal looting-Parcak and team have shed light on the 'often shadowy' period, she added. ' adds a great deal to what we know about the Middle Kingdom, a time which has long been overlooked in favor of the earlier Old Kingdom 'Pyramid Age' and the later New Kingdom 'Golden Age' of Tutankhamen and Nefertiti,' Professor Joann Fletcher of the University of York told Newsweek. 'It is exciting because we have a real opportunity to lean more about the diverse classes and groups of people that lived and then died at Itj-Tawy.' The city itself, she added, has never been discovered. 'Lisht is a fairly well known ancient site, and the location of Egypt's Middle Kingdom capital, called Itj-Tawy,' Parcak said. The gravesite lies between a pair of pyramids near Lisht, a village near Al Ayat to the south of Cairo, National Geographic stated. One of the 802 Middle Kingdom tombs documented during the 2017 Lisht Season, Lisht, Egypt.

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