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Taken from\u00a0http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/articles\/Egyptian-pharaohs-tomb-discovered-by-American-archaeologists\/31418<\/a><\/p>\n

The important find is the burial site of Sobekhotep I, believed to be the first king of the 13th Dynasty<\/h5>\n

By Garry Shaw. Web only
\nPublished online: 06 January 2014<\/p>\n

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\nThe immense royal quartzite sarcophagus of Sobekhotep I<\/div>\n

The tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh King Sobekhotep I, believed to be first king of the 13th Dynasty (1781BC-1650BC), has been discovered by a team from the University of Pennsylvania at Abydos in Middle Egypt, 500km south of Cairo. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Since new royal tombs are rarely discovered, and as only ten from the 13th Dynasty are known\u2014all at Dahshur, just south of Cairo\u2014this is an important find. King Sobekhotep I ruled for only about three years, at a time when Egypt was entering a period of decline. In fact, the chronological evidence for this period is so complex that scholars are still debating the order of the 13th Dynasty kings.<\/p>\n

Sobekhotep I\u2019s tomb was constructed from limestone brought from the Tura quarries near modern Cairo, while his burial chamber is made from red quartzite. The burial was originally topped by a pyramid. Among the further finds are a 60-ton quartzite sarcophagus, a stele bearing the name of the king, an image of Sobekhotep I enthroned, parts of the canopic jars that once contained the pharaohs internal organs, and funerary objects.<\/p>\n

Excavation at the tomb is ongoing, though Egypt\u2019s antiquities chief, Mohamed Ibrahim, hopes to open the site to the public, once the tomb has been restored.<\/p>\n

This is not the only discovery of an ancient Egyptian site since the New Year. Working at Luxor, a team from Japan\u2019s Waseda University uncovered the tomb of Khonsu-em-heb, an overseer of granaries and beer-brewers for the goddess Mut during the Ramesside Period (1298BC-1069BC). The tomb walls are painted with many beautiful scenes that illustrate religious ceremonies and show the tomb\u2019s owner, Khonsu-em-heb, with his wife and daughter, who were both chantresses of Mut. The Japanese team uncovered the tomb while clearing the courtyard of another nearby burial site.<\/p>\n

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Taken from\u00a0http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/articles\/Egyptian-pharaohs-tomb-discovered-by-American-archaeologists\/31418 The important find is the burial site of Sobekhotep I, believed to be the first king of the 13th Dynasty By Garry Shaw. Web only Published online: 06 January 2014 The immense royal quartzite sarcophagus of Sobekhotep I The tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh King Sobekhotep I, believed to be first king of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,47,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-help","category-informative","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}