Dutch Mission Uncovers 3,000-Year-Old Paser Tomb in Luxor as Egypt Pushes Tourism
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Updated · CBS New York · Jul 12
Dutch Mission Uncovers 3,000-Year-Old Paser Tomb in Luxor as Egypt Pushes Tourism
3 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Jul 12
Summary
A Dutch team from Leiden University found a 3,000-year-old tomb near Luxor belonging to a man named Paser in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna necropolis on the city’s West Bank.
Inscriptions and artistic style date the tomb to the Ramesside period, and its layout matches New Kingdom private Theban tombs—an open courtyard, inverted-T rock-cut chapel and underground burial chambers.
Well-preserved features include a mudbrick bench for a funerary stela, a staircase with sloping ramps, and scenes showing Paser worshipping deities and seated with his wife before an offering table.
The mission, working on the site since 2018, will continue documenting the tomb and identifying who else was buried there to clarify its historical context.
Egypt is highlighting such finds to support tourism, a key foreign-currency earner, after other recent discoveries and the reopening near Luxor of a major pharaonic tomb.