Archaeologists in Luxor have uncovered a 3,500-year-old false door belonging to the tomb of a Pharaonic official, stated the Ministry of Culture.

The red granite door was built to provide a passage for a spirit to access the afterlife. It belonged to the tomb of  User, that was a high-ranking official of Queen Hatshepsut.

Found near the temple of Karnak, the 1.75 metre-tall (5 ft, 9 inch) 1 m-wide door is covered with religious text.  (Quoted from the Ministry statement).

The statement indicates that Mansour Boraik, who headed the Egyptian excavation mission, as saying that the false door was removed from User's tomb, during the Roman period and reused in the wall of a structure previously found by the mission.

User took office in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled in the 15th century BC, and built a mortuary temple at the ancient capital of Thebes. Her nephew, Tuthmosis III (1504-1452 BC), is known as ancient Egypt's greatest conqueror.


Reuters

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