![]() 6, 2023, that there was "Nothing accurate here the videos just string together snippets from tombs and temples all over Egypt."Įchoing Der Manuelian's comment, Lorelei Corcoran, director of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology at the University of Memphis, said of the 2015 clips: (Pool DEVILLE/FLANDRIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)īased on some of the film clips used in it, the YouTube video appears to have conflated the discovery in 2015 of an ancient replica of Osiris' tomb found near Luxor with the original, among other errors. Peter Der Manuelian, professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, told The Associated Press on Jan. The empty sarcophagus is believed to have symbolized Osiris' rule over the underworld and the dead.Īctual "Osiris Tomb," discovered near the pyramids of Giza in 1999. ![]() On the lowest level of the underground structure (also known to archaeologists as the "Osiris shaft") lay an empty granite sarcophagus on a platform surrounded by a moat. ![]() ![]() Egyptologists say the purpose of the tomb was symbolic - i.e., no "god" was actually (or could have been) buried there. There does exist a so-called " Tomb of Osiris" near the pyramids of Giza, but it was discovered by Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass in 1999, not 2022. ![]()
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