The silver king Psusens the first

The collection of King Psusense the First is currently in the Egyptian Museum and will soon be placed in place of the possessions of the golden king Tutankhamun, who was transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum.

The silver king Psusennes the First discovered the tomb.

The tomb of Tutankhamun was the most important tombs that contain more than 5000 pieces, which amazed the world, and after its discovery twenty years after its discovery, an archaeological mission led by the French Professor Pierre Montet went to excavate the tennis north of the delta in search of antiquities and royal mummies. The first) in the year 1940AD, which was found with all its treasures and was not looted, and because of the amount of silver that was found in his tomb, he was called the Silver King.

Also, because the coffin they found weighed about 90 kilograms of pure silver, which was creatively carved and decorated with lapis lazuli.

Why did they choose silver and not gold as usual?

This is because the land of Egypt used to contain the natural resources of gold

As for silver, it was scarce and was not found in abundance in Egypt. Rather, they used to import it with lapis lazuli from abroad. This is evidence of its richness and ability to obtain this large amount of silver.

Silver was more difficult to shape than gold, as silver was poured into a mold to sculpt the face.

His sentence.

The reign of Susans I was one of the longest periods of rule in Egypt, where he ruled for about 46 years and was a successful politician, and he was the third ruler of the twenty-first family and ruled during his difficult period in Egypt, which lasted five hundred years and was a period of external threats and civil wars. Economical.

Pisosians the First repelled foreign invasions, built temples for the god Amun and many royal palaces, and transferred Psusennes, the capital, to Tanis.

- His holdings

He found in his tomb invaluable treasures of small carvings, precious stones and rare metals, and this is evidence of his great stature and the luxury in which he lived. And there is a mask of pure gold not inlaid with glass, such as Tutankhamun's mask.

And he was a king and a priest, and this was proven through the carvings found in his temple and his tomb, and there were various necklaces, the most important of these and the most wonderful is the winged scarab necklace, on which the talisman number thirty was engraved from the Book of the Dead.

Which calls for the heart of the deceased not to be taken from its owner or to oppose it

During the trial in the afterlife.

- The mummy of the silver king.

After researching the mummy, it was found that he died at the age of eighty years and had suffered from rheumatic disease.

This discovery would have constituted an important event such as the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, had it not been for the timing of this discovery at the threshold of World War II, and it would not have received the coverage and attention as it happened when the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered.