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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Papyrus
Symbol of Lower Egypt
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The Papyrus plant was the symbol of Upper Egypt. Lower Egypt was known as Ta-Mehu which means land of papyrus. The papyrus became the symbol of fertility and life itself. When intertwined with the plant emblem of Upper Egypt, the two symbolize the unification of the two lands.