archaeologist have excavate a uncommon tomb in Israelwith an Egyptian ceramic sarcophagus . Inside , the dead body of a gentleman’s gentleman who died about 3,300 years ago along with a gold scarab with the name of Seti I , the Church Father of Ramses II — the pharaoh that enslaved Moses and the Jews concord to the Bible myth . But the buried man was not Egyptian .
The man is a Canaanite , a polytheistic kindred who lived in what ’s now modern Israel . The Canaanites were authoritative during this period because their territory was at the intersection of the Egyptian , Hittite and Assyrian Empires .
Canaanites … were not accustomed to bury themselves in coffins of this sort . The Canaanite style of burial is different . Completeness of the body is a introductory thing in Egyptian burial , and that ’s because [ they believed ] the soul of the dead … is meant to leave the consistency after death .
But the man was indeed a Canaanite , belike a high outrank official during the time of Seti I , a pharaoh who reconquered Canaan up to the Confederate States of the Sea of Galilee .
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