Kings of the New Kingdom at Saqqara
Dr. Ahmed Mostafa Osman, Faculty of Archeology and Tourism Guidance, Misr University for Science and Technology
09 January 2023
01:00 PM
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main building, Third Floor Floating Room
Saqqara is one of the most important cemeteries in ancient Egypt. It includes almost all of the ancient Egyptian eras. In the Old Kingdom, the capital, Memphis, was not far from it. Therefore, most of the kings of the Old Kingdom took it as a headquarters for building their pyramids, and senior officials built their tombs near the pyramids of their kings. The Saqqara necropolis may have been neglected in the Middle Kingdom due to the capital’s move to another place, however, during the New Kingdom era the activity returned back to it. We see that there are many tombs that have been uncovered for members of the Eighteenth Dynasty until the Twentieth Dynasty. To that end, the Antiquities Museum and the Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology, affiliated to the Cultural outreach Sector at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, organize a lecture entitled “Kings of the New Kingdom at Saqqara”, on Monday, 9 January 2023; 1:00 pm, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main building, Third Floor Floating Room. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Ahmed Mostafa Osman, Faculty of Archeology and Tourism Guidance, Misr University for Science and Technology.
The lecture sheds light on the “New Kingdom” cemetery (about 1550 – 1069 BC) is located at Saqqara, and particularly south of the cause way of King Unas, where many of the high officials of the Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties were buried, among them Ptah-em-Wya, the “royal runner-up, clean-handed” who lived during the reign of each From Akhenaten (about 1352 – 1336 BC) and Tutankhamun (1336 – 1332 BC), Maya, the supervisor of the treasury during the reign of Tutankhamun, and Tia, the supervisor of the treasury during the reign of Ramesses II (about 1279 – 1213 BC). In addition to the site of Horemheb's tomb, it was prepared for him before he became king. What is new is that the names of kings and queens from the era of the New Kingdom were found, which foretells the discovery of a unique temple in Saqqara that was built of fine limestone, but it was then deliberately destroyed.