Spanish archaeologists uncover funerary garden in Luxor

A team of Spanish archaeologists uncovered yesterday a unique funerary garden in the Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis on the west bank of what is now Luxor, Ahram Online reports. The archaeology team made the discovery while carrying out excavations of early 18th Dynasty rock-cut tombs from circa 1500-1450 BCE. The significance of the finding lies in the fact that similar funerary gardens were previously only seen through images on the walls of New Kingdom tombs, and is the first archaeological confirmation of this element of Ancient Egyptian funerary rites.