A team of Egyptian archeologists has rediscovered the ancient tomb belonging to Ptahmes, the mayor of Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital.
Ptahmes lived around 1200 B.C. and served as royal scribe and arms chief under the Pharaoh Seti I and his son, one Egypt’s best known rulers, Rameses II.
The tomb is located near a pyramid in Saqqara ‘city of the dead,’ an ancient cemetery near Cairo.
Secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Dr. Zahi Hawass, explained in a press release on his website “that the tomb is 70 meters (230 feet) long and composed of a number of corridors and chapels.”
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Nekhbet
Goddess of Upper Egypt
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In Egyptian mythology, Nekhbet was an early predynastic local goddess who was the patron of the city of Nekheb. Nekhbet often holds the shen symbol of eternity in its talons, offering eternal protection to the pharaoh. As such, Nekhbet is closely linked to rulership, she was sometimes seen to be the mother of the divine aspect of the pharaoh.