The video at the heart of this claim was an odd scramble of half-truths and anachronistic claims.
lay an empty granite sarcophagus on a platform surrounded by a moat. The empty sarcophagus is believed to have symbolized Osiris' rule over the underworld and the dead.Based on some of the film clips used in it, the YouTube video appears to have conflated the discovery in 2015 of an ancient replica of Osiris' tomb found near Luxor with the original, among other errors. Peter Der Manuelian, professor of Egyptology at Harvard University,on Jan.
"The [Luxor] tomb contains a statue of Osiris but such statues formed the cult focus of other Late Period tombs such as the tomb of Harwa in the nearby Assasif area of Thebes. Recent news seems to be a recycling of this discovery." BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Ancient Sarcophagus Discovered. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/646628.stm. Accessed 9 Jan. 2023.
Scientists Just Found The Tomb Of Egyptian God Osiris Next To The River Nile. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSZ9dIYivI. Accessed 9 Jan. 2023.
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