{"id":109,"date":"2009-03-13T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=109"},"modified":"2009-04-16T05:35:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T05:35:23","slug":"new-discovery-at-in-the-tomb-of-djehuty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2009\/03\/new-discovery-at-in-the-tomb-of-djehuty\/","title":{"rendered":"New discovery at in the Tomb of Djehuty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110\" title=\"Jewelry 3500 years old\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-content\/tt11-jewelrypp.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelry 3500 years old\" width=\"700\" height=\"562\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelry 3500 years old<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\">\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\">Earlier this month, Egyptian officials announced that Egyptian and European archaeologists in Luxor had discovered two statues of an ancient pharaoh. \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: \">Egypt archaeology chief Zahi Hawass said those statues were of King Amenhotep III, who also ruled about 3,500 years ago.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: \"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">A Spanish mission working at Dra Abu El-Naga on the West Bank at Luxor found ancient jewelry in Djehuty\u2019s tomb. The jewelry belonged to Djehuty himself or a member of his family which dates back to mid 18<sup>th<\/sup> dynasty (around 3500 years ago.). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Djehuty was the state overseer of treasury and overseer of works during the reign of Queen Hatsheput. The tomb is decorated and painted with texts from the Book of the Dead along with a huge painting of Goddess Nut. The discovery is important as only four other decorated burial chambers of this period are known. There were 5 gold ear rings and two gold rings which are approximately 3500 years old. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Egyptian officials announced that Egyptian and European archaeologists in Luxor had discovered two statues of an ancient pharaoh. \u00a0Egypt archaeology chief Zahi Hawass said those statues were of King Amenhotep III, who also ruled about 3,500 years ago. A Spanish mission working at Dra Abu El-Naga on the West Bank at Luxor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[176,128],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egyptian-archaeology","tag-egyptian-archaeology","tag-tomb-of-djehuty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}