Egyptologists uncover 4,000-year-old tomb with 'portal to afterlife'

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Archaeologists unearthing a nearly 4,000-year-old tomb in Egypt's Sakkara region discovered a remarkable structure inside. The "false door," carved into the wall and leading nowhere, was identified as a special structure believed in Ancient Egypt to connect with the afterlife.

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He was responsible for the king's chamber, supervisor of all the royal works and priest of the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and order.He was buried about 4,500 years ago, contemporary of the construction of the great pyramids.

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The tomb includes a false door: a symbolic niche that the ancient Egyptians believed to be a magical threshold between the world of the living and the kingdom of the dead.

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Buenos Aires, 28 September (NA) -- An archaeological mission found in the necropolis of the Bubasteion, in Saqqara, the tomb of Sekhentio-Ptah, a senior official of ancient Egypt who held positions of trust in the court of Pharaoh. The recent discovery, which also consists of a complex of funerary wells connected to each other, belongs to the ancient Empire and dates back about 4,500 years ago, a contemporary time to the construction of the pyra…

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CAIRO: Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old tomb containing the remains of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful officials, complete with a 'magic door' believed to be a gateway to the afterlife. According to Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, archaeologists discovered the tomb of Sekhentyu-Ptah during excavations at the Bubasteion necropolis in Saqqara recently. The hieroglyphic carvings ...