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The tombs, uncovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission, contain hieroglyphic inscriptions and important archaeological remains, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Amr El-Tayeb, director-general of the Saqqara Antiquities Area, the tombs belonged to three officials, including a senior administrative and military official from the early New Kingdom, the chief merchant of the House of Ptah, and an overseer of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hisham Elleithy, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the discovery reveals the identities and histories of the tomb owners and provides new insights into Egyptian society during the New Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Egypt on Sunday announced the discovery of three rock-cut tombs dating to the New Kingdom period (1550 BC-1069 BC) at the Bubasteion necropolis in Saqqara, Giza Province, west of Cairo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000119751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000119747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000119751,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/60db041b-2893-4d55-aa08-a050de85bf71.webp","alt":"","caption":"The tombs, uncovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission, contain hieroglyphic inscriptions and important archaeological remains","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":1280,"height":960,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/60db041b-2893-4d55-aa08-a050de85bf71.webp","width":1280,"height":960},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/60db041b-2893-4d55-aa08-a050de85bf71.webp","width":1280,"height":960},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/60db041b-2893-4d55-aa08-a050de85bf71.webp","width":1280,"height":960},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/60db041b-2893-4d55-aa08-a050de85bf71.webp","width":1280,"height":960},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/07\/60db041b-2893-4d55-aa08-a050de85bf71.webp","width":1280,"height":960}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000119747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000119747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000119747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000119753,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000119747\/revisions\/2000119753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000119751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000119747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000119747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000119747"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000119747"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000119747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}