4400-year-old love story in a Pharaonic cemetery

Scientists reveal a 4400-year-old love story in a Pharaonic cemetery

A team of archaeologists succeeded in identifying one of the oldest love stories in the world, after they uncovered a plaque depicting a love scene between a married couple inside a cemetery belonging to them and their children in the Saqqara region of the Egyptian Giza Governorate, estimated to be about 4,400 years old.

The scholars said that this cemetery belonged to a singer, who was working for one of the pharaohs, and his name was "Kahai" and his wife "Meritites" who was working as a priest. The time the Giza Pyramids were being built, is indeed a very rare paint.

The painting reveals the husband and wife staring at each other's eyes, and feelings of love clearly dominate him, and the wife places her hand on her husband's right shoulder.

"Kahai" appears in the painting wearing a tiger skin costume and holding a stick and a scepter, which are symbols of power, as was believed in ancient Egypt. As she wore a long, tight dress with shoulder straps, she appeared to reveal parts of her breasts.

This cemetery was discovered in 1966, and all the details of that disclosure were already published in a book in 1971, but it was recorded and originally documented in old black and white photos.

The British newspaper "Daily Mail" pointed out that officials of the Australian Center for Egyptology of the University of "Macquarie" have now revealed the painting in all its incredible colors.

Which considers "Miral Lasheen" and a researcher at Macquarie University, that the Kahai Cemetery is an example of the importance that women had during that period.

It allows that the repeated presentation of women in works of art in different cemeteries and photographing them in the same size as the portrayals of husbands and siblings were all indications of their equal status.