Wahtye
Sign in to saveWahtye ( 2485 BC - 2450 BC) was a high-ranking priest and official who served under King Neferirkare Kakai during the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Based on his skull, he was probably around 35 years old when he died.
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It is catalogued under topics including 25th-century BC deaths, 25th-century BC Egyptian people and 3rd-millennium BC births.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Egypt
- Occupation
- priest
- Employer
- Neferirkare Kakai
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Wahtye ( 2485 BC - 2450 BC) was a high-ranking priest and official who served under King Neferirkare Kakai during the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Based on his skull, he was probably around 35 years old when he died.
== Tomb == In November 2018, it was announced that Wahtye's tomb had been found at the Saqqara necropolis. Inside the tomb were reliefs of Wahtye (he stole the tomb of his brother), his wife Weret Ptah, his 4 children and his mother Merit Meen. The tomb is long from north to south and wide from east to west and was built circa 2415–2405 BC. Wahtye and his family were buried there but not all of them were in wooden sarcophagi. The tomb has an inscription about Wahtye: "Wahtye, Purified priest to the King, Overseer of the Divine Estate, overseer of the Sacred Boat, Revered with the great God, Wahtye". When inspecting the structure of Wahtye's bones, the archeologists found that they were distended, indicating that Wahtye had a disease. One hypothesis by Amira Shahin, professor of rheumatology at Cairo University, is that he had malaria.
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