Egyptian military official Wahibre-mery-Neith was in charge of recruiting soldiers of fortune from Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands.
The burial shaft dates back to the early 5th century B.C. and was excavated by the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague.
Measuring 7.5 feet long and 6 feet wide, the inner coffin was found, which had a face made of fine-grained stone that had been smashed.and described the commander's resurrection and journey to the afterlife. The archaeological campaign ended in June 2022 in Abusir, a UNESCO World Heritage site that sits between Giza and Northern Egypt.
The tomb of Wahbire-merry-Neith, an ancient Egyptian commander of foreign soldiers, was uncovered by a Czech archaeological mission from Charles University in Abusir near Saqqara, Egypt.The First Persian Empire that was also known as the Achaemenid Empire was founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 B.C. and was its largest under Xerxes I who added much of ancient Greece.
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