{"id":242111,"date":"2021-09-19T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/09\/19\/ancient-ritual-tools-unearthed-in-pharaonic-site-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2021-09-19T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T12:24:05","slug":"ancient-ritual-tools-unearthed-in-pharaonic-site-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/19\/ancient-ritual-tools-unearthed-in-pharaonic-site-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient ritual tools unearthed in Pharaonic site in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2021_9$large_tg5g4.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed ancient tools once used in religious rituals at a temple site in Kafr el-Sheikh province north of the capital Cairo, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement issued on Saturday, the discovered objects include part of a limestone pillar in the form of goddess Hathor, a group of faience incense burners, a set of clay pots, a collection of statuettes, a purely golden Udjat eye and remains of golden scales, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is one of the important discoveries because it includes the tools that were actually used in performing the daily religious rituals for goddess Hathor,&rdquo; said Mostafa Waziri, head of the Ministry&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities.<\/p>\n<p>They also unearthed ivory reliefs depicting daily life including women carrying offerings, as well as plants, birds and animals, in addition to a large limestone lintel with hieroglyphic texts and part of a painting of a king performing rituals in the temple, according to Ayman Ashmawy, head of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Ashmawy added that they found hieroglyphic inscriptions bearing names and titles of Ancient Egyptian kings dating back to over 2,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Hossam Ghoneim, director general of Kafr el-Sheikh antiquities and head of the archaeological mission, said that a large limestone well and a mud brick bath were also discovered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient ritual tools unearthed in Pharaonic site in Egypt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}