A mission of archaeologists Belgians discovered the call falls down lost of Amenhotep, assistant of the real seal carrier at the time of Pharaoh Tutmosis III (1479-1425 a.C), in the city of Luxor, the south of Egypt.

The Supreme Council of Antigüedades (CSA) informed today that the finding registered after three years of excavations in the zone of Sheij Abd the Qarna, in the western border of the Nile, in Luxor, about 600 kilometers to the south of Cairo.

The Swedish archaeologist Karl Piehl was shortage the tomb in 1880, but later he was covered by sand and given by lost, until the Belgians returned it to find. The Secretary General of the CSA, Zahi Hawas, explained that the tomb is made up of a cupola and a great room, that is divided in two parts and that have six columns.

The mission leader archaeologist Belgian, Laurent Bavay, said that the majority of the inscriptions in the walls of the tomb is destroyed totally, which sample that the piece had been object of robberies at the beginning of century XIX.

As far as the inscriptions that are in the ceiling of the tomb, these are in good state, added Bavay, according to the note. The inscriptions contain hieroglyphic texts on the name of the deceased, its position and its family.

According to these inscriptions, Amenhotep was the son of Ahmos, the one that were in charge of the animal of the God Amón, and the assistant of Sen Nefr, carrier of real seals in the antiquity.

Source: Emol