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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Archaeologists racing to protect 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb from flash floods

Archaeologists are racing to preserve a 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb unearthed in Luxor at a site “extremely vulnerable to flash flooding”.

Excavations at the Theban necropolis were first launched in 2018, with fieldwork still ongoing at the site in lower Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.

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