The traditional Egyptian coffins have always been plain and simple and strong so that they could protect the mummies sleeping inside it.
Near the ancient city of Luxor, Archeologists in Egypt have found 20 beautiful coffins made of wood, highly and explicitly decorated with paints which are being assumed that they were specially made for high ranking priests.
All the 20 coffins are found in the ancient town of West Thebes in the same condition Egyptians had left them in.
As per the claims made by the experts, it is said that the coffins belong to the third intermediate period which started with the death of Pharaoh Ramesses XI in 1070 BC, which means that the coffins, if belong to the same periods, are almost 3000 years old.
This discovery is definitely a major one and because of the same, the Egyptian government has made an announcement about it but it is yet to reveal all the details of the discovery.
The government also released pictures from the site where Khaled el-Anan, the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities can be seen inspecting the findings.
In the third intermediate period, the kind of coffins had become a common practice as people had started to move away from the common burial practice inside tombs, says Dr. Roland Enmarch, Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
He also said that in the past years, a few more such coffins were found in the same region.
The era which the coffins belong to was the era of priests. In the region, the priests had started ruling although there was still a pharos present in some part of ancient Egypt but most of Egypt was being ruled by priests.
This is why it is being believed that the coffins belonged to priests.
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