Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities on Sunday announced the discovery of 14 coffins in the Saqqarah region that had been buried for two thousand hundred years.
The graves were discovered two days ago in an archaeological dig and are attached to thirteen wooden sarcophagi discovered at the same burial site last week, the ministry said in a statement.
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The vast necropolis of Saqqara south of Cairo belongs to the former capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A photo published through Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities on 20 September 2020 shows the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri (C), examining one of the fourteen coffins discovered in Saqqarah (AFP).