New Egyptian Tomb Discovered

[Operator5]

From Yahoo News:

CAIRO (Reuters) - Belgian archaeologists have discovered the intact tomb of an Egyptian courtier who lived about 4,000 years ago, Egypt's culture ministry said on Sunday.

The team from Leuven Catholic University accidentally found the tomb, one of the best preserved of its time, while excavating a later burial site at the Deir al-Barsha necropolis near the Nile Valley town of Minya, south of Cairo.

The tomb belonged to Henu, an estate manager and high-ranking official during the first intermediate period, which lasted from 2181 to 2050 BC and was a time of political chaos in ancient Egypt.

The archaeologists found Henu's mummy wrapped in linen in a large wooden coffin and a sarcophagus decorated with hieroglyphic texts addressed to the gods Anubis and Osiris.

The tomb contained well-preserved painted wooden statuettes of workers making bricks, women making beer and pounding cereal, and a model of a boat with rowers, a ministry statement said.

"The statuettes (are of) the best quality of their time. They are characterized by realistic touches and unusual details such as the dirty hands and feet of the brick makers," the statement said, quoting Belgian team leader Harco Willems.

Minya is 225 km (140 miles) south of Cairo.

[PeteMurray]

"Ia! Ia! Nyartholep comes, riding on the faceless cat of midnight! The fate of Henu will befall you all!" Willems added, moments before being tackled and dragged off stage.

[demi_morgana]

where's my ritual dagger? I have a plane to cairo in 2 hours!
IA, IA, IA!!! FTHAGN!!!

[Hammers]

The tomb belonged to Henu, an estate manager and high-ranking official

Why is it always a high-ranking this-and-that and not an efficient but discrete lower echelon Human Resource Assistant who has his tomb cursed and awakes to rip the jugular out of the infidels who disturbs his sleep.

I see social unjustice here...

[PeteMurray]

The middle-ranked Human Resource Assistants are already too demoralized to work up a really good curse.

"I'm... I'm... undead? And someone's disturbing my tomb? Oh, hell. May his beer spoil and he stub his toe really, really badly. Balls to this. I should have majored in engineering."

[Hammers]

I'd claim quite the oposite. A HR assistant is sort of a curse in it self. AND they pretty much self-enbalm by their own bile for being passed over for promotion. Again.

[Operator5]

It could be worse you know. They could be finding tombs of psychology majors.