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Painted Coffins, a New Priest's Tomb and Thirty Cat Mummies: Egypt Unveils a Major Discovery at Luxor's Dra Abu el-Naga

On May 14, 2026 Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the German Archaeological Institute announced one of the most striking finds of the current Luxor excavation season at the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis on the west bank of the Nile. Inside a previously unknown shaft cut into the courtyard of the tomb of the New Kingdom official Baki, the mission has lifted ten brightly painted wooden coffins, including one belonging to a chantress of the god Amun named Meret. The same season also uncovered the previously undocumented tomb of a priest named A-Shafi-Nakhtu and a separate Ptolemaic burial deposit of more than thirty linen-wrapped mummified cats.