A team of archaeologists just found large - scale inscriptions dedicated to pharaohs let in Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III during an underwater survey of the Nile River in Aswan .
The discovery wasannouncedon Facebook by Egypt ’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities . According to the mail , the mission was a joint Egyptian - French speculation with the former ’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the latter by the University of Paul Valéry Montpellier .
The carvings were found in a part of Aswan that was flood when the Aswan High Dam was constructed in the 1960s . Though manyarchaeological finds and monuments were savedbefore the dam ’s construction — include the Temple of Dendur that now sits in New York ’s Metropolitan Museum of Art — some clearly did not make it out . However , they have remain preserve under the Earth’s surface of the Nile .
Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Thutmose IV was an eighteenth dynasty magnate whoruled in the former fourteenth century BCE . Amenhotep IIIruled shortly afterward , from 1390 BCE until 1353 BCE . ( As an aside , Amenhotep III may have been the original recipient ofthe sticker made of meteoritic ironthat eventually found its room into the tomb of Tutankhamun . ) The pharaonic depictions also include mentions of the pharaoh Psamtik II and Apries .
According to Hesham El - Leithy , head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities ’ sphere devoted to antiquities conservation , the recent survey also involved photogrammetry and archeology drawings of the oeuvre .
In the same handout , Islam Selim , mind of the Underwater Antiquities section of the council , stated that the squad is now working on constructing 3D models of the lettering . The ultimate finish is to scientifically bring out the inscriptions .
More of the underwater carvings. © Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Until then , you’re able to revel in the images . The only affair cool than archaeological discovery is underwater archaeological find , I always say . ( I said that once . )
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