Excavating... piles of garbage, discovering hundreds of 3,500-year-old Egyptian treasures
An ancient pile of garbage has stunned scientists when it contains a lot of elaborately carved treasures to make an offering to the goddess of love.
An ancient pile of garbage has stunned scientists when it contains a lot of elaborately carved treasures to make an offering to the goddess of love, many of which are covered in the legendary Egyptian blue color.
According to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, the pile of rubbish was kept an eye on during the excavation of the temple of the goddess Hathor in Luxor. The temple was built in association with the Temple of Hatshepsut leaning against the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari, a famous site in Egypt.
Close-up of the "garbage pile" full of treasures
When archaeologists, led by Dr. Patryk Chudzik from the University of Warsaw (Poland), they were trying to restore an ancient tomb when they discovered a pile of ancient garbage - almost a messy scrap yard. . At first, they thought they were new things that had collapsed due to the excavation process, but when they checked again, they discovered rubble inside the rubbish heap 500 years older than the Temple of Hatshepsut itself.
They dug through ancient rubbish and found countless small busts, meticulously carved dishes and many other objects believed to be sacrifices to the goddess Hathor - the goddess of love and fertility. Egyptian. Most of the property is covered in the beautiful Egyptian blue, which is one of mankind's oldest dyes and still looks fresh to this day.
Some of the hundreds of extremely valuable artifacts unearthed from the scraps
This 3,500-year-old pile of trash is said to be the result of a time when the goddess was worshiped and the people brought in too many offerings. The Temple of Hathor was later relocated, but the Egyptians left many sacrifices piled up. Five centuries later, the area was used as the site of the Temple of Hatshepsut, but the pile of garbage is still kept in a hidden corner.
Luxor is known as Egypt's "archaeological mecca", where the Valley of the Kings is located and offers many other massive archaeological finds such as temples, tombs, and countless mummies.
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