Egypt Tomb Reused 4 Centuries

LuxorOne chamber of tomb TT 209 held burials for four centuries.

A space built for a single owner became municipal infrastructure for the dead.

Researchers read plant remains, insects and sediment layers in the chamber to reconstruct changing burial practice, not inscriptions.

The Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology study spans the 25th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic period’s abandonment.

Sources: Phys.org