CAIRO, March 03 .- A mission of Japanese archaeologists have found a cemetery of the Nineteenth Dynasty New Kingdom (1539-1075 BC) to the coffin of a noblewoman in Saqara area, 25 kilometers south of Cairo.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced today in a statement that within the cemetery is a limestone coffin is a woman named Isis NFERT who had the title of "noble woman" as well as three mummies and debris funeral. The cemetery appeared as Japanese archaeologists excavating in the northwest of the archaeological site of Saqara and close to several antiques belonging to one of the sons of Pharaoh Ramses II, who reigned between 1279 and 1213 BC The general secretary of the CSA, Zahi Hawas said that the cemetery is very typical of the style of the New Kingdom because it has a dome, a courtyard with four columns, an internal room with four columns and the space devoted to the burial of the deceased, among other venues. According to the head mission of Japanese archaeologists, Sakogi Yushimora, the coffin has a broken hand and inscriptions in blue, indicating the name and the title of women to which it belongs. Yushimora noted that the title of "noble woman" is very rare in New Empire of antiquity. He also said that it is possible that the entire cemetery NFERT belongs to Isis, which may be the daughter of a prince. Source: http://www.terra.cl/actualidad/index.cfm?id_cat = id_reg = 1167 & 1133717














