CAIRO: After more than two decades of restoration, the tomb of Neferhotep, the great 18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BC) scribe of Amun, was officially opened on Sunday.
According to Ahram Online, the tomb, located in the Al-Khokha area on Luxor’s West Bank, was opened during a ceremony by Mostafa Waziry, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Gonzalo Urriolabeitia, Argentina’s ambassador to Cairo.
‘Today’s opening of the tomb introduces a significant new tourist destination to the attractions of Luxor’s West Bank, particularly amidst the surge of tourists to the country during the winter season,’ Waziry said, adding that the tomb displays beautifully painted scenes and inscriptions.
The restoration of the tomb began in 2000. A mission from Buenos Aires University in Argentina was responsible for recording and studying the tomb’s epigraphic and archaeological aspects, while a German archaeological team carried out the conservation and cleaning of the wall paintings.
Mohamed Abdel-Badiae, Dir
ector of Antiquities in Upper Egypt, said that the architectural structure of the subterranean structure was arranged east to west, evoking the regeneration of the deceased and the sun’s daily journey.
Source: Emirates News Agency
NABLUS: Israeli colonists set a Palestinian-owned truck ablaze tonight in the town of Huwara, in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus, according to local sources.
WAFA correspondent reported that the assailants targeted the truck — owned by local citizen Abdullah Ouda — while it was parked in front of his home in the town.
Earlier in the evening, colonists inflicted gunshot wounds on a young man and a child, in addition to burning down a house and a vehicle during an assault on the nearby village of Asira al-Qibliya.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA