Djehuty Project discovers significant evidence of the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/snrc-dpd040513.php - Spanish National Research Council

The Djehuty Project, led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has discovered on the hill of Dra Abu el-Naga in Luxor (ancient Thebes), the burials of four personages belonging to the elite of the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, who lived about 3.550 years ago. These findings, discovered during the 12th campaign of archaeological excavations of the project, shed light on a little-known historical period in which Thebes becomes the capital of the kingdom and the empire's foundations become established with the dominance of Egypt over Palestine and Syria to the north, and over Nubia to the south…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…