EFE Cairo A mission of Japanese archaeologists have found a cemetery of the Nineteenth Dynasty New Kingdom (1539-1075 BC) to the coffin of a noblewoman in the area Saqara , 25 miles south of Cairo.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced in a statement that within the cemetery is a limestone coffin is a woman named Isis NFERT who had the title of "noble woman", and three mummies and funerary remains of material.
The cemetery appeared as Japanese archaeologists excavating in the northwest of the archaeological site of Saqara and close to several antiques belonging to one of the sons of Pharaoh Ramses II, who reigned between 1279 and 1213 BC
CSA general secretary Zahi Hawas said that the cemetery is very typical of the style of the New Kingdom because it has a dome, a courtyard with four columns, an internal room with four columns and the space devoted to the burial of the deceased, including rooms.
According to the head of the mission of Japanese archaeologists, Sakogi Yushimora, the coffin has a broken hand and inscriptions in blue, indicating the name and the title of women to which it belongs. Yushimora
noted that the title of "noble woman" is very rare in the New Kingdom of ancient times.
also said that it is possible that the entire cemetery NFERT belongs to Isis, which may be the daughter of a prince.
Source: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/03/03/cultura/1236085750.html
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