Archaeologists have reportedly found the tomb of a pharoah National Monitor reported Wednesday.
Archaeologists found Woseribre Senebkay's case at South Abydos in summer 2013 National Monitor reported. The find which resembles the hard materials of the Abydos Dynasty from 1650 to 1600 BC National Monitor reported. Senebkay measured five feet eight inches, and passed away in his forties The National Monitor reported.
"We were pretty puzzled for two days," Dr. Josef Wegner, leader of a science team from the University of Pennsylvania told the Daily Pennsylvanian. "It was a king's name that didn't appear anywhere else in history, so we didn't know who he was at first."
Wegner's team worked with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities found the tomb near that of King Sobekhotep from the 13th Dynasty National Monitor reported.
According to The National Monitor, robbers reportedly vandalized the artifacts, but managed to put the items together again, and read the hieroglyphcs.
"It's exciting to find not just the tomb of one previously unknown pharaoh, but the necropolis of an entire forgotten dynasty," Dr. Wegner told National Monitor.. "Continued work in the royal tombs of the Abydos Dynasty promises to shed new light on the political history and society of an important but poorly understood era of Ancient Egypt," Wegner told National Monitor.
The Chamber was made from red quartzite from Gebel Ahmar, a region close to Cairo, and traced back to the Middle Kingdom time period National Monitor reported Wednesday.
Egyptian past times span more than three thousand years, which decreased, and dissolved two thousand years ago National Monitor reported according to Discovering Egypt.
The final known remains perished in 391 AD when the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I shut down pagan temples across the Roman Empire National Monitor.
