Major discovery in Tanis reveals 225 royal ushabti statues

A French archaeological team at the Tanis site in Sharqiya has unearthed a major find inside one of the site’s most storied royal tombs. During the cleaning of the northern chamber floor in the tomb of King Osorkon II, the team unearthed a large assemblage of 225 funerary figurines (ushabti) belonging to King Shoshenq III. Remarkably, the figurines were found in their original position.
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