A team of Spanish archaeologists has discovered the tomb of an ancient writer in southern Egypt, with a book, pens, and a bronze inkwell discovered at the site.
The writing artefacts were discovered next to a mummy, with the tomb dated to around 600BC, during on of Egypt’s last phaoronic dynasties, possibly from the reign of Necho II.
The archaeologists believe that the man entombed at the site would have been from the pharaoh’s priest class, with Egypt’s minister of antiquities Mohammed Ibrahim saying that he would have had a major impact on the “intellectual and cultural life of the era”.
