Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Tombs in Egypt—And What’s Inside Isn’t Meant for Pharaohs

Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Tombs in Egypt—And What’s Inside Isn’t Meant for Pharaohs

Three recently uncovered tombs on Luxor’s West Bank are rewriting what scholars know about the administrative class of Ancient Egypt. Dating back more than 3,000 years to the New Kingdom, the tombs provide fresh insight into the nation’s complex civil and religious bureaucracy. Unlike royal burials found in the Valley of the Kings, these tombs belonged to high-ranking administrators—men whose careers sustained the vast logistical networks behind…