560 Ushabti Found in One Tomb at Tell Athar Quesna Stun Archaeologists
Sean Alison July 24, 2026 14 min f in 𝕏 A collection of faience ushabti figurines like the 560 recovered from a single sealed tomb at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tell Athar Quesna. (Powered by AI) The brush moves slowly in the dim light of a Delta morning, and then — one by one — faces emerge from the mud. Small, serene, blue-green faces by the dozen, then by the hundred, each one staring upward from a sealed chamber that no living person had entered for approximately two thousand years. By the time the excavation team working at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tell Athar Quesna had finished counting, they had 560 of them — a silent, glazed army arranged in the dark, still waiting to serve.
- ▪Sean Alison July 24, 2026 14 min f in 𝕏 A collection of faience ushabti figurines like the 560 recovered from a single sealed tomb at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tell Athar Quesna. (Powered by AI) The brush moves slowly in the dim l
- ▪Small, serene, blue-green faces by the dozen, then by the hundred, each one staring upward from a sealed chamber that no living person had entered for approximately two thousand years.
- ▪By the time the excavation team working at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tell Athar Quesna had finished counting, they had 560 of them — a silent, glazed army arranged in the dark, still waiting to serve.
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← Back to the front page Ancient History 560 Ushabti Found in One Tomb at Tell Athar Quesna Stun Archaeologists Excavators at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tell Athar Quesna unearthed 560 ushabti figurines arranged in a single burial chamber, a near-unprecedented concentration of the afterlife servant-figures that reveals the extraordinary wealth and religious devotion of one mysterious tomb owner. Sean Alison July 24, 2026 14 min f in 𝕏 A collection of faience ushabti figurines like the 560 recovered from a single sealed tomb at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tell Athar Quesna. (Powered by AI) The brush moves slowly in the dim light of a Delta morning, and then — one by one — faces emerge from the mud.
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