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| Callou, C.; Samzun, A.; Zivie, A. | |
| A lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Ma‹a | |
| 2004 Nature (427): 211-212 | |
Lions are mentioned by classical scholars and in pharaonic inscriptions as being among the sacred animals that were bred and buried in the Nile valley. And yet no specimens have been found in Egypt - until the excavation of the Bubasteion necropolis at Saqqara. Here we describe a complete skeleton, once a mummy, of a male lion (Panthera leo) that was discovered there, buried among the cats' catacombs created during the last centuries BC and occupying the much older tomb of Ma‹a, wet-nurse to the king Tutankhamun (from the New Kingdom, fourteenth century BC). |
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