A Spanish-Egyptian archaeological team has found in Saqqara an outstanding late Fifth Dynasty tomb with two chapels and colourful reliefs of farming and offering processions.
A Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission, led by Spanish Egyptologist Josep Cervelló, has uncovered a "striking and beautiful" tomb dating from the late Fifth Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom (2494-2345 BC) in the Saqqara necropolis, southwest of Cairo.
The find was made during this summer's excavations, led by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. It is an exceptional mastaba with two funerary chapels, commissioned by Yunmen, a senior official under Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi, who also ordered that his father, Iti, a lower-ranking official, be buried there.
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed that the tomb dates from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, during the reign of Djedkare Isesi, and is located in the Mariette necropolis, north of Saqqara. According to the statement, it contains "two funerary chapels belonging to two high-ranking officials, Younmin and his father, Ity".
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