Iufaa

Iufaa was an Egyptian whose tomb was recently discovered at Abusir. Through the excavation of his tomb, archeologists have found much information about the Egyptians and about the Persians when they occupied Egypt. Czech archeologists opened his tomb February28, 1998. Through gathering information about his tomb, they found that he was about thirty years old when he died. Iufaa was lector priest and controller of the palace of Pharaoh Ankhkaenre Psamtik during the twenty-sixth dynasty. The Persian ruler Cambyses dethroned the pharaoh.

Czech archeologists from the Institute of Egyptology found his tomb. Miroslav Verner headed their team. He said that the mummy was the most intact mummy that he had ever seen. Miroslav Verner and his team started the excavation process in 1995. Verner said the tomb had remained undisturbed for twenty- five hundred years. Verner also said he expects to find more rooms.

The mummy had disintegrated badly and it was dried out. The mummy that was two thousand five hundred years old from 525 BCE had fungus spreading all over it. When Verner and his team opened the tomb, they found that there were neither jewels nor gold in the tomb. The walls of

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On February 24, 1998, Verner’s team went 80 feet under the sands to a burial chamber covered by a cement structure. On March 1, 1998, a bead restorer took the beads from Iufaa and saved them for later restoration. Iufaa’s tomb was 92 feet below the desert floor. They were surprised when they saw that his tomb was well preserved and undisturbed more many years. A doctor wants to x-ray Iufaa’s body. There was also prayers from the Book of the Dead on the walls. It is in the shadows of the pyramids of Giza. All three of the shafts were filled with sand. Below Iufaa’s collar on his tomb was the winged goddess, Nut and the sons of Horace, who were the protectors of the deceased. He did not live when Egypt was at their high point. After Verner and his team lifted the two-ton lid of the outer sarcophagus, they found an inner sarcophagus of black-green rock, whose lid was decorated with someone’s face. Verner’s team had to open many sarcophagi to get to his coffin. The pelvis and the neck had been broken at this time. Abusir is 10 miles south of present day Cairo. Pottery in his tomb shows that he was born in the 26th dynasty and died in the 27th dynasty under Persian rule.

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