Tomb of Ancient Egypt Singer Found

Tomb of Ancient Egyptian singer, Nehmes Bastet, who was found in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, by a Swiss scientist.

CAIRO - Archaeologists Swiss find tomb of ancient Egyptian singer 3,000-year-old in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Minister of Culture and Antiquities of Egypt Mohammed Ibrahim told the media on Sunday (1/15/2012), in Cairo.

The discovery was actually a rare coincidence. The inventor is a team of scientists from the University of Basel, Switzerland, led by Pauline-Elena Grothe and Susanne Bickel. Precisely found in the tomb of Karnak and Luxor.

Ibrahim, as reported by AFP on Sunday, said that the figure of the singer who was buried was the daughter of the Rev. Amon. Singer's name is Nehmes Bastet. He is a singer for the worship of the god Amon Ra at the time of the 22 ruling dynasty (945-712 BC).

The identity of the singer was contained in an inscription of wood found in the tomb. According to archaeologists, the discovery is quite important.

"This shows that the Valley of the Kings are also used as tombs of ordinary people and religious leaders of the dynasty-22," said Ibrahim. Because, during this, the whole tomb found in Valley of the Kings of Ancient Egypt refers to the family.

Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization in northeastern Africa. Civilization is centered along the mid to lower reaches of the Nile which heyday at about the 2nd century BC, the period known as the New Kingdom period. Region covers an area of ​​the Nile Delta in the north, to Jebel Barkal at the Fourth Nile Cataract. At some particular time, the Egyptian civilization extending to the southern Levant, Eastern Desert, the coastal Red Sea, Sinai Peninsula and the Western Desert (focused on the few oases).
Ancient Egyptian civilization evolved over more than three and a half centuries. Starting with the initial unification groups that exist in the Nile Valley around 3150 BC, this civilization has traditionally been considered an end in about 31 BC, during the early Roman Empire conquered and absorbed the Egyptian Ptolemy as part of the Roman province. While this is not the first foreign occupation of Egypt, the period of Roman rule caused a political and religious changes gradually in the Nile Valley, effectively marking the end of the development of an independent Egyptian civilization.
Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on a good balance of control between human and natural resources, characterized primarily by

    regular irrigation of the Nile Valley;
    mineral exploitation of the valley and surrounding desert regions;
    early development of independent writing system and literature;
    organization of collective projects;
    trade with eastern Africa and central and eastern Mediterranean; and
    military activity that shows a strong characteristic of royal hegemony and cultural domination of neighboring regions on several different periods.
Management activities are carried out by the social elite, political, economic and social consensus through a complicated system based on religious belief under the figure of the demigod rulers (semi-divine), which is usually a man, through a succession of ruling dynasties, known by the wider world as a polytheistic faith.
On a map of Ancient Egypt. The southern part of Egypt they call the new Egypt. Northern parts of Egypt they call the old Egypt. In Egypt there are the new kings of the valley, where the graves Tuthankhamen. In Egypt a long time, there Giza, where the largest pyramid.
In Egypt, of course there is the God and Goddess. One of them was the god Osiris, the god of death. Other deities Isis, Tawaret, Thoth, Sebek, Nut, Amun-Ra, and much more! Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians worshiped around 2000 gods and goddesses.