3,300-year-old 'lost' tomb of Cairo's mayor is discovered
Ptahmes, the mayor of Memphis, also served as army chief, overseer of the treasury and royal scribe under Seti I and his son and successor, Ramses II, in the 13th century BC. The discovery of his tomb earlier this year in a New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, south of Cairo, solves a riddle dating back to 1885, when foreign expeditions made off with pieces of the tomb, whose location was then forgotten.
"Since then it was covered by sand and no-one knew about it," said Ola el-Aguizy, the Cairo University archaeology professor who led the excavation
"It is important because this tomb was the lost tomb."