Archaeologists working in the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis have revealed a funerary mystery: hundreds of figurines with the name of an unexpected pharaoh.
A French archaeological mission headed by Sorbonne University’s Frédéric Payraudeau found 225 funerary statuettes of King Shoshenq III, but not in his tomb—in King Osorkon II’s. The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation of ancient Egyptian…

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