Thieves Find Cemetery of Pharaoh's Dentists

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 23, 2006 @06:15AM from the yank-like-an-egyptian dept.

junglee_iitk writes with news of an important archaeological find from Egypt. Grave robbers located a tomb and were arrested while digging; what they found turns out to be the graves of three dentists who took care of a Pharaoh's teeth. The graves are located in the shadow of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, said to be Egypt's oldest, and are around 4,000 years old. From the article: "Although archaeologists have been exploring Egypt's ruins intensively for more than 150 years, [a senior archaeologist] believes only 30 percent of what lies hidden beneath the sands has been uncovered." Yahoo has a few pictures of the dig.

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And yet... by GmAz · 2006-10-23 06:17 · Score: 5, Interesting

Its also amazing how grave robbers seem to find all the good stuff before the archeologists.

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1. Re:And yet... by viking099 · 2006-10-23 06:25 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  I'm just glad the officials were able to nab the robbers before any damage was done or any items were stolen. Hopefully we can learn a bit more about how dental care was done in Egypt back then.