The Royal Cache of Deir el-Bahri

The Royal Cache of Deir el-Bahri – Egyptian Monuments

The secrets of Pharaonic Mummy, the Valley of the Kings and the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt, and the discoveries they contain about the Egyptian Pharaohs kings and the lives of the ancient Egyptians.

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The Royal Cache of Deir el-Bahri

First The Royal Cache:

Abdel Rasool Family discovered in Thebes a site containing 40 Pharaonic Mummy ownership in 1871 AD, but the discovery remained a secret among the family until the Egyptian government was able to Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, Who discovered this secret and sent a group of Egyptology, The Egyptians in 1881 AD to begin digging and excavating and opening the door of the tomb.

Boxes were moved Pharaonic mummies on wooden boats to transport them across The Nile River from the Luxor to the stores in Cairo to study it, it is interesting that the word mummy at that time was not registered with a symbol in the records of the Customs Authority, so the boxes of Pharaonic mummies were registered as boxes of salt skewers.

Names of the most important Pharaonic mummies discovered in The Royal Cache:

• King Seqenenre Tao “Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt” – The New Kingdom in ancient Egypt.
• King Ahmose I “Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt“.
• king Amenhotep I.
• King Thutmose I.
• King Thutmose II.
• King Thutmose III.
• King Seti I “Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt“.
• King Ramses II.
• King Ramses III “Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty” – The Ramesside Period.
• King Ramesses IX.

Funny revelation story:

The young man Ahmed Abdel Rasoul was herding sheep in the Deir El Bahari area next to tomb number 320.

The sheep went to the top of Mount Qurna and he followed them and went down into a deep water well dug between the rocks until he reached the bottom and began to discover the Deir el-Bahari cache.

They discovered more than 40 royal coffins on top of each other and a group of wooden boxes containing artifacts such as Pharaonic Scarab and funerary Ushabti Statue “Funerary Equipment“, especially for the most important ancient Egyptian deities – Ancient Egyptian gods and Goddesses and religious beliefs in Ancient Egypt in the Ancient Egyptian religion and a group of canopic jars that were used to preserve the body’s entrails after the mummification process “Mummification in ancient Egypt” and were buried with it to indicate the development of Medicine in ancient Egypt Egypt to re-identify the body with the other world “Aru”.

The Royal Cache Second:

A second cache of 153 mummies and coffins belonging to individuals was discovered Priests of the god Amun in Thebes. Another year 1891 AD.

Third The Royal Cache:

A third royal cache was discovered in the Tomb of King Amenhotep II | KV35 in 1898 AD, where the priests of the God Amun at the beginning of the Third Decline “Third Intermediate Period of Egypt“, the beginning of the reign of king Psusennes I of the Twenty-first Egyptian Dynasty, buried 9 royal mummies and 4 non-royal mummies together in underground holes.

As a result of the spread of chaos and Revolutions in Ancient Egypt, and the phenomenon of tomb robbery by Pharaonic tomb robbers “Ancient Egyptian Grave Robbers” began to appear.

• Mummy King Amenhotep II.
• Mummy King Thutmose IV.
• Mummy King Amenhotep III.
• Mummy king Merneptah.
• Mummy King Siptah.
• Mummy King Seti II.
• Mummy King Ramesses IV.
• Mummy King Ramses V.
• Mummy King Ramses VI.

Abdel Rasul’s family helped the French Egyptologists Victor Loret in the discovery, the mummy was hidden in a secret and hidden way behind the wall of the tomb, and the wall was painted with inscriptions and drawings from the sacred funerary books of the ancient Egyptians, such as The Book of the Dead, The Book of the Heavenly Cow, Book of Amduat, Book of Caverns, Book of Gates.

Graveyard Cache No. 63:

• Cemetery No. 63 is located 7 meters from Tomb of Tutankhamun | KV62.
• The tomb was discovered by a descending scholar Egyptology Dr Zahi Hawass through a dry well 6 meters deep below the surface of the ground.
• The tomb has been robbed before Ancient Egyptian Grave Robbers during the rule of the Nineteenth Pharaonic Dynasty, the door of the tomb was not closed well and a group of stones were added on top of each other.
• Seven empty royal coffins were discovered, including a child’s coffin and a group of pottery vessels containing beer and pharaonic wine (Food in ancient Egypt) and alabaster (Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy) sealed with clay and bearing pharaonic seals.
• It was discovered that this tomb is not royal and that it belongs to a family from the royal ruling class that was weak in ruling in ancient Egypt “Ancient Egyptian Government“.
• Scrolls written in Ancient Egyptian language Hieratic contains recipes for Pharaonic oils.
• The pottery was opened and what was inside was discovered until the remains of still oils were foundTRemaining thousands of years old, there are 3 pieces of cloth inside, in addition to 5 alabaster and pottery vessels containing natron salt, and the discovery of 42 small vessels inside one of the pottery vessels next to which are fabrics, a seal, a natron salt, aromatic plants, and models of the cemetery’s seal containing an inscription of the God Anubis “The Cemetery Guard” with drawings of a group of prisoners of war tied from behind to indicate the development of Industry in ancient Egypt.
• A rare artifact of the cemetery’s seal was discovered, drawn in the shape of a sun disk at the top, with the God Osiris and surrounded by two buds, which are grown in the regions of Upper and Lower Egypt, then below is a gold sign, which is a similar piece that was reproached in a cemetery King Tutankhamun.
• A seal containing the inscription of a crocodile and a lion was discovered together.
• It is believed that this cemetery was used by ancient Egyptian embalmers as a storehouse for royal embalming tools such as wood, natron salt, cloth, straw, and spices.
• The tomb was carved into the rock of Mount Qurna.
• It was discovered that the tomb belonged to a family close to the Eighteenth Pharaonic Dynasty.
• The Royal Cache. All the treasures and possessions in the cemetery were stolen during the golden age of civilization Ancient Egypt A resident of Western Thebes.
• The priests of the Temple of Amun used the tomb as a storehouse for non-royal mummification tools and equipment from regional rulers and senior Egyptian state affairs officers Government of ancient Egypt.

The secrets of the Valley of the Kings:

• Cache of tomb No. 35 in 1898 AD inside the royal tomb of King Amenhotep II.
• Hide Tomb KV55 The year 1907 AD or Hide Tell el-Amarna.
• Hide Tomb of Horemheb | KV57 the year 1908 AD.

The Royal Cache of Amenhotep III:

More than 17 statues of the god have been discovered God Sekhmet “The symbol of war among the Pharaohs ” in Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III“, The funeral procession in Luxor, where the form of the representation was similar to that of a woman with the head of a lioness and the disk of the sun above her head, in a sitting position on a bench.

It was discovered that King Amenhotep III died while he was ill, so he added more than 17 statues to symbolize healing in ancient Egyptian religious beliefs to help him heal in the afterlife after death, in addition to bringing him victory in wars with enemies.

“King Amenhotep III He has the Temple of Amenhotep III in El Kab, Aswan, and the The Tomb of Amenhotep III | KV22 / WV22 in the Valley of the Kings.”

Karnak Cachette Discovery 1904 AD:

A large hole was discovered in the northwestern corner of the large courtyard of the complex Karnak Temple in Luxor by the French archaeologist Georges Legran, where 17 thousand artifacts were discovered, including 627 statues made of limestone, alabaster and basalt, 18 sphinx-shaped statues made of black granite, and paintings of the ancient Egyptian goddess buried on top of each other. The ancient Egyptians buried them in the Ptolemaic Kingdom to restore the temple. And getting rid of chaos and crowding in the corridors leading to the Holy of Holies.

Many antiquities were stolen and smuggled out of Egypt illegally, and the rest were preserved in The Egyptian Museum Tahrir Square a collection of them was displayed at the Aldufiti Gallery and Museum in Grenoble.

Mummies lost so far:

1. mummy King Akhenaton.
2. mummy Queen Nefertiti.
3. Mummy of King Tuthmosis I.
4. mummy king Ay.
5. mummy King Horemheb.

Why those hidden things?

With the end of an afternoon The New Kingdom in ancient Egypt in the period 1080 BC, the Pharaonic collapse began and chaos, hunger, and theft spread among the residents of Western Thebes. Gangs spread out stealing amulets made of gold and precious stones from inside the royal mummy after cutting the linen scrolls.

The priests of the Temple of Amun in Thebes quickly collected the remaining amulets, artifacts, and treasures belonging to the king, assembled them, and rewrapped the king’s body again with wrap.FLinen and burying the mummy inside its coffin, then collecting a group of royal coffins and burying them in a deep hole under the surface of the earth, in addition to transporting the funerary statues and papyrus scrolls written in the ancient Egyptian language and keeping them together and hiding them in other crypts to preserve them.

The Royal Cache. There are coffins and a Pharaonic mummy that were discovered in the secret places of Cemetery 55 in the Valley of the Kings.

Papyrus of tomb robberies:

A Pharaonic Ancient Egyptian Papyrus was discovered that tells of the conflict between tomb thieves in the western region of Thebes and the rulers for stealing treasures and jewelry “Clothing in ancient Egypt” from the royal tombs in the Royal Valley, where there was a conflict between Baser, “mayor of eastern Thebes,” and Bara, “mayor of the western land,” the leader of the gang for stealing tombs.

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