2,000-Year-Old Sealed Sarcophagus Found in Egypt

Whoever it was doesn't look very Egyptian to me.

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Doesn't really look like the busts of Alexander, though, does it? They're uniformly broader faced.

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Tomb of Alexander the Great:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Alexander_the_Great
 
I knew you'd be interested. This is a HUGE deal and no one's talking about it. IT'S SEALED. Almost every burial we find nowadays had been robbed at some point prior, especially something as seemingly high status as this.

not sure about the bust. I do agree that it generally looks more European. As far as the condition is concerned I've heard a couple explanations: One being that it was a rough hew for whatever reason and the other that is had been damaged from acidic erosion.

There is also a chance that I'm completely out of the archaeology loop and this is old news with the release being timed for public manipulation.

In some ways I think my obsession with paleogenetics the past 3 years has sort of subjectively emaciated the actual cultures we've been talking about. I was starting to see places as rich and fantastic as Ancient Mesopotamia or Egypt as just an admixture bar.
 
holderlin said:
I knew you'd be interested. This is a HUGE deal and no one's talking about it. IT'S SEALED. Almost every burial we find nowadays had been robbed at some point prior, especially something as seemingly high status as this.

not sure about the bust. I do agree that it generally looks more European. As far as the condition is concerned I've heard a couple explanations: One being that it was a rough hew for whatever reason and the other that is had been damaged from acidic erosion.

There is also a chance that I'm completely out of the archaeology loop and this is old news with the release being timed for public manipulation.

In some ways I think my obsession with paleogenetics the past 3 years has sort of subjectively emaciated the actual cultures we've been talking about. I was starting to see places as rich and fantastic as Ancient Mesopotamia or Egypt as just an admixture bar.
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I did wonder what had happened to that bust.

Whether or not it's Alexander, it's going to be very interesting. The dating is from around the time of the death of Alexander to the time of Caesar's presence in Egypt. If the person wasn't Egyptian there are other possibilities.

I started out with the study of ancient cultures; all of this just helps to put them more in focus. I'd so love to be able to go back in time and see them as they really were, what the cultures were really like. This is my substitute, I guess. :)

Thanks for posting the find, Holderlin.
 
there are 3 black coffins there,

this one shows errosion,
so we can not see the scripts on the stone.

As for Alexander,
 
Hope they are able to get DNA
 
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that the skeletons of three men who appear to have been killed in battle were found inside a large, sealed, black granite sarcophagus discovered in Alexandria earlier this month. Mummy expert Shaaban Abdel-Moneim said one of men appears to have an arrow wound in his skull. Water leaks had delayed the opening of the sarcophagus, according to representatives of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The remains will be restored and studied. For more on archaeology in Egypt, go to “Honoring Osiris.”

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6801-180719-egypt-three-warriors
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Looks like they may have been warriors.
 
They've determined the age and sex of the skeletons.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...80770dcddc2_story.html?utm_term=.9808bdfe9f91

".....a woman in her early 20s, a man in his late 30s and a man in his early 40s.Chief researcher Zeinab Hasheesh says one of the skulls has a cavity indicating a “surgical intervention.” Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, says researchers found gold inside some of the bones."
 
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