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KY_EnviroGuy

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5. Thanks for the good OP. Here's more info...
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 08:23 PM
Dec 2018
4,400-Year-Old Tomb of 'Divine Inspector' with Hidden Shafts Discovered in Egypt
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
Link: https://www.livescience.com/64317-saqqara-tomb-hidden-shafts-discovered.html
(snips)
Wahtye was a high-ranking priest who carried the title of divine inspector, said Mostafa Waziri, the general secretary of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities who led the Egyptian team that discovered the tomb. Wahtye worked for a pharaoh named Neferirkare (reign ca. 2446–2438 B.C.), Waziri said.
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The tomb contains two levels with 24 statues on the upper level and 31 statues on the lower level, Waziri said. Most, if not all, of the statues, show humans or deities, with some appearing life-size and others appearing to be less than about 3 feet (1 meter) tall.

and...

Egypt tomb: Saqqara 'one of a kind' discovery revealed
15 December 2018
(good photos here)
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-46580264
(snip)
Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, described the find as "one of a kind in the last decades".

The tomb, found in the Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo, is filled with colourful hieroglyphs and statues of pharaohs. Decorative scenes show the owner, a royal priest named Wahtye, with his mother, wife and other relatives.

Archaeologists will start excavating the tomb on 16 December, and expect more discoveries to follow - including the owner's sarcophagus.

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